To respond, I realized I needed to move from projects to policy. One of the difficulties in dealing with recapturing environmental quality is that it's a systemic condition, so there's no simple solution. It doesn't do any good just to plant trees. You also have to deal with air quality today , because acid rain is going to kill those trees or create soil problems or hamper regeneration. In other words, there is a whole range of problems that are interconnected.
Environmental recovery is complex stuff.
We haven't learned to think in systemic ways yet, and we're going to have to. Yes, it will force the issue. So the Green Century Project is, in essence, a three-step scheme on a massive scale, because it has to be massive to deal with the systemic complexity. It's modeled on the program we put in place in California back in 1978. We've got the 100-year plan, but implementing it is a challenge because we need to have massive funding.