Youre the father of earth day. Hows your offspring doing at age 20. Well, weve come out of this quite a distance since 1970. That is to say theres a great deal more awareness concern and understanding about the issue. Now than there was then. There is finally a recognition, an important recognition on the part general that the activities of man on the planet are actually dangerously degrading the ecosystem that sustains all of the oceans, lakes, air force, soil. So weve come some distance. We have a long, long way to go, but at least theres a much better public understanding and much better understanding the legislators governors and members of legislature, congress that this is a a vital issue. In fact, i my own view is that the status, our resources, our air, water soil, rivers, oceans and so forth minerals, the that is the most important facing mankind on the planet, because determines quite precisely our standard of living and the quality of our lives. And we have been dangerously
Youre the father of earth day. Hows your offspring doing at age 20. Well, weve come out of this quite a distance since 1970. That is to say theres a great deal more awareness concern and understanding about the issue. Now than there was then. There is finally a recognition, an important recognition on the part general that the activities of man on the planet are actually dangerously degrading the ecosystem that sustains all of the oceans, lakes, air force, soil. So weve come some distance. We have a long, long way to go, but at least theres a much better public understanding and much better understanding the legislators governors and members of legislature, congress that this is a a vital issue. In fact, i my own view is that the status, our resources, our air, water soil, rivers, oceans and so forth minerals, the that is the most important facing mankind on the planet, because determines quite precisely our standard of living and the quality of our lives. And we have been dangerously
Tweets and live facebook questions at noon. Its on cspan two. Continues. Journal we are joined by a White House Reporter with bloomberg news. Talk us through specifically the white house and the response this week to Hurricane Harvey and its remnants. Where is the president going to be today and how soon is he expected to be on the ground down there in texas . Guest the president spent the weekend in camp david talking with a number of his cabinet officials about what was happening in houston. He held to cabinet meetings where he was dialed into teleconference. The white house was keen on making sure the American People knew the president was engaged. He got back to the white house yesterday evening. He will spend the day there and has a number of different meetings with the Vice President and the secretary of state. He has a meeting with the president of finland. We here the president will be going to texas on tuesday. We are not sure if he will go directly to houston or some of the o
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