Part One: The Scary Truth - Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Emergency and What We the People Can Do About It

PART ONE: THE SCARY TRUTH

Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself….We’re challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.
—Rachel Carson, writer and conservationist, in 1963, a year before her death from breast cancer