2001 Earth Day Information Center

 

Earth Day 2001 Fact Sheet

 

Earth Day Reflections

 

• "The leadership of the [environmental] movement... does tend to draw from the upper middle class, well educated part of the social spectrum. Few of them go bowling or to car races."-Denis Hayes, Executive Director of Earth Day 1970, from a 1999 Time magazine interview.
  
  
• "We can do everything necessary to forge a sustainable society without sacrifices that my grandpa and grandma would have thought were an imposition... I never heard my father complain about lack of air conditioning in the car." - Former U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day co-founder and a consultant to the Wilderness Society, on the occasion of Earth Day's 30th anniversary.
  
  
• "The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)... shows more clearly than ever that a long-term global warming trend is occurring and is being driven by human actions." - Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, from a speech presented on February 27, 2001.
  
  
• "Ten years ago, I believed the modelers that global warming was a serious problem that needed attention and intervention. As I studied the issue year by year, I became less and less convinced that the 'problem' was truly serious... I believe that even if we controlled every molecule of human emissions we would still see substantial climate change, just as we always have." - George Taylor, President of the American Association of State Climatologists, from an article in a January 2000 issue of Electricity Daily.
  

 

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