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Yet we seem as a nation to be willing to proceed in this matter with happy-go-lucky indifference even to the immediate future.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He criticizes the nation's indifferent attitude towards pressing environmental challenges.

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