1. We find it easy to say its the industrialists fault and
the scientists problem.
2. But really the fault is ours and the problem is ours.
3. Mans lack of reverence for the earth is
to blame, and, as one ecologist points out, that lack of reverence "goes a long way
back."
4. Weve taken many years to get to our current plight, but
we don't have many years to get out of it.
5. Man, whose intelligence supposedly distinguishes him from
the other animals, has traditionally waited until problems have become almost
insoluble before he has become concerned.
6. Hopefully, the lyricists words "The times, they are
a-changing" apply to youths concern for the total environment.
7. There have always been men who, like the nineteenth
centurys Henry David Thoreau, could read the signs of the times.
8. Thoreau, one of Americas first naturalists, looked at his
fellow citizens thoughtless destruction of the forests and cried, "Thank God,
they cannot cut down the clouds."
9. A modern naturalists cry is that we can and we are
cutting down the clouds.
10. Perhaps the Joneses and the Smiths children will act on
the warnings of the naturalists of the twentieth century.
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