Do I have to choose between a healthy economy and a healthy environment?

Do I have to choose between a healthy economy and a healthy environment?

Terry Tamminen (Author & Environmental Policy Advisor) gives expert video advice on: What percentage of the world's "carbon emissions" come from the United States?; Do I have to choose between a healthy economy and a healthy environment? and more...

It's an absolutely false choice, the notion of having to choose between a healthy economy and a healthy environment. Time after time, we've proven that a healthy environment is what results in a healthy economy. Think, for example, about air pollution related to petroleum. Right now, in this country, we're spending well over 600 billion dollars every single year in public and private health insurance and other costs related to disease and death that is related to our petroleum addiction. That is money that could be put into health care, into schools, or into things that we care much more about.