Editorial, National Review Bulletin (1970)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1 Warnings
7. Introduction 13
8. “Air Pollution in Donora, PA: Epidemiology of the Unusual Smog Episode of October 1948, Preliminary Report” 16
9. The Place of Nature in Man ’s World The Atlantic Naturalist (April 1958) 20
10. “Wilderness Forever” (1961) 25
11. Silent Spring 29
12. Testimony before the Federal Power Commission in the Matter of Consolidated Edison (1964) 33
13. Part 2 A Dying Planet
14. Introduction 35
15. The Population Bomb 38
16. Whole Earth Catalog 42
17. “Lead Poisoning: Silent Epidemic in the Slums,” Village Voice (1969) 43
18. Testimony before the Allegheny County Commissioners (1969) 49
19. United Auto Workers, Letter Initiating Down River Anti-Pollution League (1969) 52
20. “The Santa Barbara Oil Spill: Impact on Environment” (1969) 54
21. Seattle–King County Department of Public Health, Annual Report, 1969 56
22. Part 3 Earth Year
23. Introduction 59
24. The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 64
25. Editorial, National Review Bulletin (1970) 68
26. Citizens Association of Beaufort County, “Is This What You Want for South Carolina’s Waters?” Columbia Record (1970) 70
27. “Special Message to the Congress on Environmental Quality” (1970) 71
28. “How Indians Would Use Fort,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1970 77
29. Harvard University Lecture (1970) 80
30. Pogo Poster: “We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us” (1970) 84 84
31. Earth Day Speech, Denver, Colorado (1970) 85
32. “Black Ecology,” The Black Scholar (1970) 87
33. Letters from Schoolchildren to Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland (1970) 90
34. Representative Louis Stokes, Address in Congress Supporting Rivers and Harbors and Flood Control Act of 1970 (1970) 94
35. “Someday Son, All This Will Be Yours,” Cleveland Plain Dealer (1970) 96
36. Letter to the Oregon Environmental Council (1970) 97
37. Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP), Public Service Announcements (1970) 100
38. Clean Air Act Amendments (1970) 102
39. Part 4 Is Catastrophe coming?
40. Introduction 106
41. A Select Committee of the University of Montana, “Report on the Bitterroot National Forest” (1970) 109
42. Photograph of the Bitterroot Forest, Montana (1971) 113
43. Remarks before the American Petroleum Institute (1971) 114
44. Testimony Regarding the Water Pollution Control Act (1971) 119
45. Council of the Southern Mountains, “We Will Stop the Bulldozers 122
46. Dissent, Sierra Club v. Morton (1972) 125
47. “Is Catastrophe Coming?,” The Doomsday Syndrome (1972) 129
48. Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972) 133
49. Part 5 Continuation
50. Introduction 139
51. “The Energy Problem: Address to the Nation” (1977) 141
52. Statement Regarding Superfund (1979) 146
53. A Mother’s Reflections on the Love Canal Disaster (1982) 151
54. Testimony Regarding the Greenhouse Effect and Global Climate Change (1987) 156
55. Bibliographical Essay 161
56. Index 167