The Great Society-Environment
The Great Society was a summed up vision that Johnson had announced on May 1964.
Its main goal was to eliminate the social poverty and the racial unfairness. It mainly resembled the New Deal by Roosevelt.
The Environment--
What the Great Society did for the environment?
This project towards the environment helped to extend the protections on natural resources. It was also aimed at what natural resources that were left to maintain being untouched.
Lyndon Johnson said, "the air we breathe, our water, our soil and wildlife, are being blighted by poisons and chemicals which are the by-products of technology and industry. The society that receives the rewards oftechnology, must, as a cooperating whole, take responsibility for[their] control. To deal with these new problems will require a newconservation. We must not only protect the countryside and save it fromdestruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage thebeauty and charm of our cities. Our conservation must be not just theclassic conservation of protection and development, but a creativeconservation of restoration and innovation."
By this he meant that natural resources aren't always going to be here to use up. We will run out in the future and he was trying to get people more aware of this. He tried to save the whole country's resources to be destroyed. I think that this was a really good idea. I just wish they more people actually took it a little more seriously and today we would still have more natural resources that we do now.
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