People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.