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"The financial incentives are becoming more evident," Vautin says, "because energy and water conservation have a real payback, the hurdle of getting people to think about it is not as high."
Kelsey Wirth '91, a member of the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) who helped organize the Cambridge Earth Day celebration, says students will continue to stress the economic advantages of conservation policies in their meetings with administrators.
"We are entering a new phase of environmental studies and activism," Wilson says. "Conservation is more linked to economic development than opposed to it, focused on biological diversity rather than just individual star species such as the panda and the bald eagle and tilted southward to put increasing emphasis on...
People must battle the problems that lead to environmental destruction, including "greed, poverty, and ignorance," he said. "Conservation is not a biological issue, it is a people issue."
In the absence of higher gasoline taxes, setting strict fuel-efficiency requirements for new cars is an alternative route to conservation. The technology exists to boost the average mileage achieved by U.S. cars from 26.5 m.p.g. to 45 m.p.g. by 2000. But under President Bush, the federally mandated average will...