The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
There is nothing new about national policies on major social interests such as education or labor - or, for that matter, the environment.
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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.
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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