Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models.
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.
The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.
If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.
I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.