Private Stewardship Environmental progress, over the long term, requires self-propelled environmental protection by businesses, farmers, and individual private citizens. Environmental entrepreneurship can't occur unless people have the incentives and ability to act as private stewards of the environment. While punishment is needed for those who callously flout environmental law, a balance should be struck between punishment and incentives that encourage environmental innovation. Honesty, Integrity and balanced environmental policy is a result of good science. As more and more scientific data on environmental ills becomes available, the emphasis is placed on how we use this information.
Science is too important to politicize or to ignore.
The environment is made up of many competing risks. With that in mind, environmental policy should take all of these goals into consideration, offering holistic rather than piecemeal answers. Now, the government needs to tap into the wellspring of creativity of the public to solve environmental problems. This call for collaboration, innovation and flexibility holds the key to a cleaner, brighter and healthier future.