important to environment health. Each component of the environmental structure must be considered a keystone to which all other parts are related in some way.

The United States government has been floundering in the environment as much as anyone engaged in environmental programs. Within the past six years, we have see four major reorganizations with regard to public health, environmental control, and consumer protection. There was a big reshuffle in October, 1968 which has not settled down yet. With all this concentration on who is going to do what, there really hasn't been much accomplished. The National Environmental Health Association believes that the federal government (including the administration, congress, and the legislative branch) should come up with some immediate answers regarding responsibility for total environmental control and action, and get on with the job of cleaning up, and maintaining a clean and healthy environment.

There will have to be some pretty sound plans made-plans that include looking toward the future so that what is done today will be a stepping stone or building block for tomorrow.

Population control has raised its head as a new concern in the United States. This was when we had more space than anyone thought we would ever needmore land for development, more land for agriculture, more land for recreation, more land for . . . But time is running out, land and resources are running out. Population is growing and predictions are that we will be stacked on top of each other all over the land within the foreseeable future. I don't think anyone really believes this will happen-but it could.

Control of population requires awareness of every individual as to what could really happen. Creating such an awareness must fall into the hands of persons most knowledgeable of environmental limits, and at the same time persons qualified to deal with people in the field of human relations. New concepts have to be built, new values set, perhaps a new moral fiber developed. Man's knowledge, attitudes, and behavior substantially determine his environment, his health, and ultimately his chances to exist on earth.

Presently, environmentalists are not directing their efforts to changing people. Rather they are attempting to bring about ecological changes by changing the environment. Often this change is temporary, ineffectual, costly and limited in its influence on the total environment. Professional environmental behavioral scientists must move effectively to control environmental deficiencies at their source by controlling attitudes and behavior patterns of people. We must develop the manpower to meet this challenge and we must do it now, through recognition of these professionals by the United States government in the Health Training Improvement Act of 1970, and allocation of funds to schools of environmental health to create new undergraduate programs and to measurably improve those now existing.

The nation's total health outlook must take in all the health professions, and those professions must cooperate in order to provide what Congress has declared our national purpose, "promoting and assuring the highest level of health attainable for every person, in an environment which contributes positively to individual and family living." Training for this national goal must start with environmental health in which the total health picture can be evaluated and solutions made by relating the natural and biological aspects to the social and human inhabitation aspects. Environmentalists and environmental health must be specifically stated in the Health Training Improvement Act of 1970.