The National Center for Policy Analysis and the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation present a special Firing Line debate that goes to the heart of the current controversy over environmental policy versus personal and property rights. Taking the negative are former California Gov. Jerry Brown, Time Magazine writer Eugene Linden, Sierra Club director Carl Pope and president and director of the Woods Hole Research Center George Masters Woodwell. Speaking for the negative, team leader Eugene Linden said environmental efforts were more often too modest rather than too excessive. The U.S. is one of 76 countries that have less than one percent of their original forests remaining.
Wetlands continue to decrease.
Around the world, the situation is bleak. The notion that we've gone too far, too fast in global terms is laughable. Deforestation continues apace. In our struggle against poverty, it is not recommended to do away with wealth. And in the struggle for clean air, we should not encourage the repeal of the Industrial Revolution.