Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Anton Nelsonwas an American politician from Wisconsin who served as a United States Senator and governor. A Democrat, he was the founder of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of environmental activism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 June 1916
CountryUnited States of America
political-will issues challenges
Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
numbers issues today
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
issues environmental franklin
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
country issues immigration
The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population. It can be done. But in this country, it's phony to say 'I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration.'
issues addresses environment
If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves
country organization issues
As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration that if you oppose the immigration policy we have now, you're a racist.. There is no way in the world we can forge a sustainable society without stabilizing the population. ... There's no practical way of stabilizing the population of the U.S. without reducing the immigration rate. When do we decide we have to do something, or do we wait until things are as bad here as they are in the countries people want to leave?
issues important environmental
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
fate issues important
The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.
base nearly nuclear resource sustains threat war
The threat of nuclear war isn't nearly as important as the threat of the destruction of our resource base which sustains us.
earth events john knows ours peace phrase political
John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.
anytime consequences life web
We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
bush calls himself president
President Bush calls himself an environmentalist. I think his heart's in the right place, but he hasn't demonstrated any leadership.
century half last leadership question
In the last half century we haven't had Presidential leadership that addressed this question in the broadest and most important aspect.
people understand
I don't think most people understand where we're headed.