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

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Everything is connected to everything else.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.