If Environmentalism Is A Fad,

By Adopting The Control Strategy, The Nation's Environmental Program Has Created A Built-in Antagonism Between Environmental Quality And Economic Growth.

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?

Recycling Is A Good Thing To Do. It Makes People Feel Good To Do It. The Thing I Want To Emphasize Is The Vast Difference Between Recycling For The Purpose Of Feeling Good And Recycling For The Purpose Of Solving The Trash Problem.

Everything Is Connected To Everything Else. Everything Must Go Somewhere. Nature Knows Best. There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

My Entry Into The Environmental Arena Was Through The Issue That So Dramatically - And Destructively - Demonstrates The Link Between Science And Social Action: Nuclear Weapons.