Gaylord Nelson (1916-2005) obituary

"We will not succeed in forging an economically and environmentally sustainable society until all key social, political, economic, and religious groups are on board.  If labor, business, or any other major group is opposed to doing what is necessary to achieve sustainability, it probably will not happen."
     - Gaylord Nelson

"You show me pollution and I will show you someone who is not paying their own way, someone who is stealing from the public, someone who is getting the public to pay their costs of production.  All environmental pollution is a subsidy."
   - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
   Senior Attorney
      - Natural Resources Defense Council
   Chief Attorney
      - Hudson Riverkeeper Program

"The Earth Day founder presents exceptionally lucid explanations of a host of current ecoissues, and calls for a renewed effort to keep these potentially catastrophic predicaments visible and their possible solutions viable through education and citizen action."  More
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