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Supporters say the initiative forces businesses to meet sensible requirements which many businesses meet already. They also say the proposal would conserve resources, increase recycling levels and jobs and reduce garbage disposal costs.
If the worst occurs, countless millions will become environmental refugees, swamping the nations that tried to conserve their soil, water and forests. The great-grandchildren of today's young people would have to share the planet with only a ragged cohort of adaptable species dominated by rats, cockroaches, weeds, microbes...
"Small things like encouraging students to take only what they can eat and to conserve napkins can make a big difference," Himawan said.
The countries that emerge as leaders in the twenty-first century might well be those which take care of their own problems first and conserve their resources until they're needed for self-defense. As the old bromide has it, charity begins at home. Politics should too.
Not since the dinosaurs were killed off, say biologists, has the world experienced an extinction "spasm" like the man-made one that will wipe out 10% to 20% of the earth's estimated 10 million species of plants and animals by the year 2020. Since at least 50% of those...