Word: conservationism
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Writing in the Jesuit magazine America, Schall says that the nation's growing commitment to the environment is a "dangerous" and "unbalanced" trend. Rather than being a "pragmatic recognition of cleanliness and conservation," it seems all too often to be a "kind of subtle undermining, in its theoretical origins...
Another reaction was to blame environmentalists for the infestation. Because he recommended no aerial spraying of pesticides, Elmer Madsen of the Bristol, Conn., conservation commission received a box of squirming caterpillars from an angry resident. Someone else called him one night to complain "The noise of the worms eating is...
Is there any way of retrieving from the hyperactive market some means of preserving what is not for sale? Arguably, there is. Assuming that the appetites of collectors will not diminish in the near future, governments might well impose a conservation tax on every work of art that is sold...
Such a tax would, by its nature, be an economist's ideal: it would affect only those who can afford it. It might fractionally tone down today's price levels, and no doubt would be strenuously opposed by some art dealers and collectors. It would not solve all...
Despite powerful opposition, Delaware has chosen conservation over industrial growth. Last week Governor Russell W. Peterson signed a law that stops heavy industry from locating new plants on the state's 125-mile-long ocean, bay and river coastline. The law, first of its kind in the U.S., specifically...