There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.
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The environmental movement, having enjoyed many successes at the city, state and national levels, now needs to begin to address the global problems that threaten to undo all our progress elsewhere.Denis Hayes
This set of recommendations is ecologically responsible, but it's not putting a hair shirt on Seattle.
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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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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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We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.
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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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