The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.