Word: conservationism
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At least since Earth Day, however, the garden-club ladies have felt a certain smugness. America's garden clubs have been preaching conservation for years, albeit in modest and genteel ways. Last week when 600 delegates to the national council gathered in Chicago, they tended to say, "I told...
Sir: Now let me get this straight-in order to be pro-survival-of-the-world, at least according to many Earth Day orators [May 4], you must be against President Nixon, antiEstablishment, for an immediate pullout from Viet Nam and against the space program. Well, I believe in a...
The letter was extraordinary not only because a Cabinet member felt compelled to criticize the Administration, but because the source was Hickel. To most liberals, intellectuals and environmentalists, he had all the allure of an oil slick when he became Richard Nixon's Interior Secretary, An Alaska millionaire, onetime...
Shrugs and Overstatement. There are two dangers in confronting the present conservation crisis. One "is to overstate the damage to the environment. The other is to fall into the kind of shoulder-shrugging despair best illustrated by Writer Lillian Hellman when her neighbors sought her help in protecting the island...
"Those who believe the environmental crisis relates to trees and not to people are wrong," Muskie said. Referring to the high standard of living, he said, "there's still an unwillingness to cut back on selfish exploitation for selfless conservation."