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...they won't, because Earth Day has been sold. In order to create a multi-million dollar, coast-to-coast celebration, Earth Day organizers have chosen to rely on the support of corporations, cooperating with those who continue to destroy the planet even as they contribute to a celebration of conservation. Consider...

Author: By Julie E. Peters, | Title: The Selling of the Planet, 1990 | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...celebration of life is an embrace of both the good and the bad, and this is the point that the men of the play do not grasp. Their fear of death--and birth--leads them to destroy the things they "love" in an attempt to gain control over their inevitably finite existence...

Author: By Joe MARTIN Hill, | Title: Mythic Feminism | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

...every erstwhile alarmist can bring himself to such optimism. Says Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary: "A lot of people are trying to undermine the foundations of the American experience and are pushing toward a more Balkanized society. I think that would be a disaster, not only because it would destroy a precious social inheritance but also because it would lead to enormous unrest, even violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond The Melting Pot | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...American flag to burn in the privacy of your home. Why all this stuff? Because you demand it. While trying to appeal to you with flattery for your intelligence and compassion, direct-mail packages are designed on the assumption that you're a self- indulgent idiot. Even environmental groups destroy thousands of extra trees, sating their members' hunger for superfluous paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Check Is in the Mail | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...will make environmental reform one of his administration's major goals. But pro- Indian groups contend that Collor must go much further and ban all miners from the Amazon. Says Claudia Andujar, an Indian-rights activist: "The cancer is still in the area. The miners will return and destroy more forests, pollute more rivers and kill more Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Blowup in the Rain Forest | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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