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one wholly conscious of its own living environment and
anxious to maintain or improve the standard of that
environment.
It is also intended to introduce new
legislation, firm but fair, for dealing with the type of
offender to whom reason and the public good are unimportant,
and to back this legislation, it is intended to introduce
anti-litter squads headed by Litter Wardens, whose principal
object will be to catch or deter litter offenders.
Such a campaign, however, could not even hope to get
off the ground without a massive publicity effort utilising
all the media, hammering home the undesirability of living
amidst litter, and conditioning public attitudes to
enthusiastic support for anti-litter measures, even in
the toughest, least tractable districts. The combined
efforts of the community groups, the support in cash and
kind of the industrial/commercial sector, the considerable
resources of Government in the fields of housing, education,
publicity and public cleansing, and a determination to
succeed on the part of all concerned, can perhaps confound
the defeatists, amaze the cynics, and straighten the spines
of all Hong Kong's citizens with the beginnings of civic
pride. I hope that when that time comes, and a general
appeal is made for assistance in combatting our litter
problem, you will be 100% behind our efforts.
be no thanks, except from posterity.
There may
Finally, let me quote an excerpt from a lecture on
Land Pollution/...