"The environment we have doesn't cause the stresses you have in cities," says the retiree.
That's the environment we have to deal with, and we find solutions around that.
As to the current economic financial environment, "We have minuscule debt," she added, with emphasis.
If they're becoming a systemic part of our environment we have to consider this really seriously.
However, as a result of the current business environment, we have reluctantly decided not to renew our sponsorship this year.
Sadly this is not the environment we have today – and not likely to be for many years.
"For a country with such a beautiful natural environment, we have such incredibly weak laws," she says.
What made the Baltimore GP so difficult, he said, was "the downtown environment we have to operate in.
"But in creating such an open environment, we have weakened society, and people would have different opinions about whether that's a good thing or not".
In the current public spending environment, we have to consider carefully the additional costs to the taxpayer of the commission's proposals against other funding priorities".
Space is the toughest environment we have to work in, and creates fiendish problems that need smart people to solve them.
