We must be educated to know what is being done to us and our 5 billion year heritage. If schools neglect to teach these lessons, another generation of apathetic, passive citizens will become the profiteers who will further plunder the Earth. Already the Blue Planet is changing its color. Blue skies we all know are turning gray and brown with layers of pollutants, and brown swaths of clear cut forest graveyards are visible from satellite photographs. The Blue Planet is under deadly assault.
Education is our first and most crucial line of defense.
Teilhard de Chardin, as quoted in Pablo Neruda Sky Stones, translated by Peter Levitt. Printed by William Dailey, Los Angeles, 1990. The Dream of the Earth , p. 126. Ibid., p. 129. Ibid., p. 135.