Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argues that material wealth alone should not define America, that the public assets we bequeath to our children - clean air, clean water, abundant wildlife and thriving communities - constitute a better benchmark of our nation's wealth and justification for sustained environmental stewardship. The most prominent green critic of George W. Bush, Kennedy Jr. also criticizes the Bush administration's "stealth attack" to "eviscerate" three decades of American environmental law.

Summary by Commonwealth Club staff.