Zitat des Tages über Umweltschutzbewegung / Environmental Movement:
No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.
Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.
I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest fear was our children, because there was a tremendous amount of threat and intimidation, and my wife was terrified that the children might be grabbed or assaulted in some way. That was the real fear.
The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'