Earth Day 1970 Was Irrefutable Evidence That

Our Assaults On The Ecosystem Are So Powerful, So Numerous, So Finely Interconnected, That Although The Damage They Do Is Clear, It Is Very Difficult To Discover How It Was Done. By Which Weapon? In Whose Hand? Are We Driving The Ecosphere To Destruction Simply By Our Growing Numbers? By Our Greedy Accumulation Of Wealth? Or Are The Machines Which We Have Built To Gain This Wealth-the Magnificent Technology That Now Feeds Us Out Of Neat Packages, That Clothes Us In Man-made Fibers, That Surrounds Us With New Chemical Creations-at Fault?

The Environmental Crisis Is A Global Problem, And Only Global Action Will Resolve It.

The Aec Scientists Were So Narrowly Focused On Arming The United States For Nuclear War That They Failed To Perceive Facts - Even Widely Known Ones - That Were Outside Their Limited Field Of Vision.

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.

The Gap Between Brute Power And Human Need Continues To Grow, As The Power Fattens On The Same Faulty Technology That Intensifies The Need.