PRESS RELEASE
SPEECH OF THE "KEEP HONG KONG CLEAN" CAMPAIGN GIVEN BY MR. H.M.G. FORLGATE AT THE
ROTARY CLUB OF HONGKONG LUNCHEON
on Tuesday, 6th June 1972
Gentlemen
I am most grateful to have been given this opportunity to address such a representative and influential assembly, in
my capacity as Vice Chairman of the Urban Council Environmental
Hygiene Select Committee, on a subject currently dear to all
our hearts and eyes
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and noses
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the problem of pollution by
litter in Hong Kong, and what is being done about it, and, in particular, the "Keep Hong Kong Clean" Campaign scheduled to begin on 1st November this year,
In recent years, concern amounting sometimes to
obsession with pollution and the quality of the environment has become fashionable. Everywhere, politicians are using these terms as popular political platforms, and many commercial firms are gearing themselves and their products to these
attitudes.
The more cynical minded or heedless among us tend to dismiss this concern as a vogue which, as with all earthly things, will pass. But I hope that on this score they could not be more wrong (unless, of course, they are so cynical as to mean that in their passing, they will take mankind also!) and, fortunately, in Hong Kong, many right-minded people are seriously, even desperately, concerned about what the staid London Times recently called: "humanity running, lemming-like, to the brink of ecocatastrophe".
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