In spite of what appears to me to be an inundation of information in the media about what is needed to stabilize the environment, as well as the frantic efforts of what has become a small global army of environmentalist, most people will not really believe there is any real need to take action, let alone do it, unless there is some kind of recognition of the problems by and organized leadership from the federal government. Although the small global army is growing slowly, and might someday succeed in their battle to bring man into harmony with the ecosystem, I'm not convinced that they will succeed in time to avoid catastrophic disasters for mankind.

A sound economy requires a state of mind, a philosophy, an approach to life, if you please. To bankrupt the ecosystem in an effort to help the economy is temporary in the first place, and doesn't work in the second. Over the past decade our government has put off implementing some of our environmental restrictions for the sake of the economy. In that time damage has been done to the environment, some of which is permanent, such as the loss of virgin forests and streams, and some of which will take decades, or even centuries to repair, such as pollution of the air and water, and loss of the topsoil. Our economy is just as sick, indeed, probably sicker.

General Pollution Laws

Pollution Law #1. The Federal government will switch to exclusive use of chlorine bleach free paper products, and utilize recycled paper wherever possible. (Something needs to be added here to help reduce paper consumption by the federal government and to encourage electronic paper shuffling, but I haven't decided what yet.)(2011 Update:  This is probably obsolete by now.)

One would think that with all the computerization going on, that government use of paper would be on the decline or at least begin to level off. I don't know what to do for Pollution Law #2 yet, but its objective will be to somehow reduce government paper use.

Pollution Law #2. Some kind of law to reduce government paper use goes here. (2011 Update:  Also probably obsolete by now.)