EXCERPTS FROM BLOOMBERG EARTH DAY SPEECH

“New York is on a collision course with the environment.”

“I’d like to suggest that we face up to those challenges, not tomorrow, not in the future, not when it’s too late, but right now,” Bloomberg said at the American Museum of Natural History.

“I will not spend my last 984 days in office pretending that all is fine and leaving these challenges to the next mayor,” Bloomberg vowed.