| The Problem of Global Warming |
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Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time
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| The United States from Space |
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In this view from space, the United States literally glows from the light of inefficient commercial and street lighting. This light is primarily concentrated in and around cities. Light that leaks into space is not of value to citizens and creates a costly harm to the environment. While new, energy efficient technology has transformed street lighting, cities have been slow to adapt. This slow pace is not only harmful to the environment, but wastes billions of taxpayer dollars each year.
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"The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. In a war such as this, then, what is victory and how will we recognize it?"
—Al Gore, Nobel Prize Winner and former Vice-President
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"Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment—that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption—and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities."
— Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, author of Power to the People
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"Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure."
— John McConnell, founder of International Earth Day
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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
— Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic novelist and humorist
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
— Richard Feynman, US educator and physicist
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"We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?"
—Richard Bach
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