In the United States and many other countries, Earth Day 2000 will highlight the need to replace polluting fossil fuels with clean, renewable sources of energy. We welcome all groups to join us in this energy campaign. We will also facilitate networking to launch campaigns on other millennial issues. If you would like to organize or participate in Earth Day 2000, please send us the enclosed card immediately. We invite you to join us in making Earth Day 2000 the beginning of a new chapter in the environmental history of the Earth.
Human history is full of important accomplishments.
Our ancestors have left awesome achievements, material and spiritual, for us to enjoy. Yet we have also inherited enormous challenges. For the first time in history, humans have the power to alter the entire planet. We are changing the climate, triggering an epidemic of extinctions, drilling holes through the ozone layer, reproducing and consuming beyond the world's carrying capacity, and maintaining an arsenal of weapons capable of causing more destruction than an asteroid collision. Now it is our turn to choose our legacy.