We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.
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There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity,Denis Hayes
We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't threaten our health or poison our planet. Let's choose to use it.
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When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.
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The easiest way to make something cool is to get cool people to do it. Part of this might mean the president has to forget tensions with opponents, or people like Arnold Schwarzenegger who has actually been decent with oil issues. Maybe he needs to pull some of the cool people in and make them model the right behaviors.
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We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There has been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.
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