"We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."
--James Watt, Secretary of the Interior during the Regan years.
Is this still the attitude of today ?
Human beings are currently causing the greatest
mass extinction of species since the extinction of
the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. If present trends
continue one half of all species of life on earth will
be extinct in less than 100 years, as a result of
habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species,
and climate change.
http://www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html