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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.