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The Future

This page is under construction, as is our future. It will contain ideas about positive directions for change as well as assessments of future problems. Thanks for your patience. -- Bill Kovarik

"The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000) spells out clearly what individual households, businesses, cities and the nation need to do today to address this core threat to the planet's future. Buy it; read it; and let's get started". -- Dennis Hayes, in president's address to the Bullitt Foundation.

"This is the greatest work of our age -- to move the human situation from a destructive relationship with the earth to a creative one." -- Thomas Berry, Harvard University speech, April 16, 1998, quoted in Shabecoff, Earth Rising.

"Environmentalism has the latent strength to put us on a course toward a safe and pleasant ecological future, a better, more rational way of living on earth. First, however, environmentalists will have to learn how to use that strength more effectively. They will have to find ways to rekindle the transcendental flame lifted by John Muir but now only a spark in their workday institutions, to recapture the excitement and exhilaration in their cause that Muir found [for instance, when he lashed himself to the top of a tree in a storm]. They will have to again practice conservation of the environment as it was envisioned by Roosevelt and Pinchot: as a core value of progressive politics, as an issue of democracy, as a means of bringing science to bear on the creation of policy, as a means of achieving economic and social equity for present and future generations... There will have to be yet another wave of environmwentalism, one that is broader, more sophisticated, visionary and aggressive and massive enought to stand against the tide of human numbers and technmologies, of ignorance and greed and wilfulness, that threatens to propel us into an age of physical, biological and cultural decline ..." -- Philip Shabecoff, Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century, (Washington DC: Island Press, 2000).

GREAT LINKS:

Intermediate Technology Development Group is the organization founded by E.F. Schumacher to provide practical answers to global poverty.

Explore the Environment in the NASA-funded " Classroom of the Future"

Planet Drum gives information on moving beyond environmental protest to live sustainably wherever you are located.

Also See:

"Our Stolen Future" concerning endocrine disruptors as pollutants.