Young RFK addresses industry; praises the greens.Speaking at the meeting of the Natural Resources Defense Council The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a New York City-based, non-profit non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing. Founded in 1970, NRDC today has 1. on June 20, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to convince the business community that "an investment in environment is an investment in infrastructure." Good economic policy and environmental protection laws go hand in hand, he said, so the government should look into how environment preservation measures could promote a free market in the U.S. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Kennedy, many corporate polluters use government subsidies to reduce the costs of doing business and then avoid the responsibility of cleaning up their toxic waste toxic waste is waste material, often in chemical form, that can cause death or injury to living creatures. It usually is the product of industry or commerce, but comes also from residential use, agriculture, the military, medical facilities, radioactive sources, and . "When General Electric drops its waste into the Hudson, it's avoiding the cost of cleaning up after itself," he said. "True free market should be reflected in the price of the product when it reaches the final marketplace. It means making sure that people don't cheat." As an example of how irresponsible ir·re·spon·si·ble adj. 1. Marked by a lack of responsibility: irresponsible accusations. 2. Lacking a sense of responsibility; unreliable or untrustworthy. 3. environmental policies could result in economic problems, Kennedy spoke about countries like Russia, China, and Mexico, where the exhaustion Exhaustion Situation in which a majority of participants trading in the same asset are either long or short, leaving few investors to take the other side of the transaction when participants wish to close their positions. of natural resources has hampered trade. "If you look at what happened in those countries, environmental injury has matured into economic catastrophe Catastrophe, from the Greek Καταστροφή (katastrephein), literally means "to turn" (strephein) "downwards" (kata-). ," he said. "And that's what will happen to us with this fool-hardy administration." As a solution to an impeding im·pede tr.v. im·ped·ed, im·ped·ing, im·pedes To retard or obstruct the progress of. See Synonyms at hinder1. [Latin imped environmental crisis, Kennedy called for more and stricter environmental protection laws, as well as community and business involvement. "We would like to at least participate in the dialogue about our future," he said. "We elbow ourselves into the congress, where all of those big shots are stuffing their pockets, and say 'We are emissaries for the future. We want an accounting.'" In addition to the energy crisis and water pollution in Westchester and Connecticut, Kennedy also spoke about the urban sprawl problem, criticizing the government for encouraging the building of new communities far away from transportation and other critical infrastructures. "The principle reason for scrawl is huge subsidies for development agencies," he said. "People are under the illu-[INCOMPLETE] |
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