The group is a meshing of both business and environmental interests. The Yakama tribal leader tells how, when the commission met in the Northwest, it's co-chair, the chief executive of Dow Chemical, wound up joining in Native dances. While such tales of cultural cross-fertilization provide hope, a recent meeting of the commission left Strong with a more sobering perspective. Shortly after attending the April 1995 meeting, Strong spoke to the annual gathering of the Washington Rivers Council, a group a grassroots river activists. His message was that any real changes would not come from the top down, but from them and other grassroots people.
Sustainability becomes more and more a distant dream.
Anybody who believes that the politics of today is going to put vitality back is fooling themselves. These regulations are going to be rolled back enough to endanger future generations. If you want to come home and find the watershed that is going to have to come from the spiritualism in your heart. We are told to have no other laws before the laws of nature. All others are pretenders.