Man CANNOT produce resources. He can only consume them. The only products we produce are made by consuming energy, minerals, topsoil, clean air and water, or other organisms. Only the Earth can generate these, and at a far slower rate than most of them are currently being consumed.

The higher the standard of living, the greater the per-capita environmental destruction.

China is the ONLY nation to address the underlying cause of all increasing man-made environmental problems, whether Mr. Strabala approves of their approach or not.

Italy and France attempted to solve short-term internal imbalances with a shortsighted policy blunder which will be costly to them, and to the world in the long run.