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Johannesburg aims to put equal stress on the twin aspirations of sustainable development. Those who profess to care about the environment yet scorn the goal of development only undermine both causes. For the poorest members of the human family in particular, development means the chance to feed, school and care for themselves and their children. But development that takes little account of sustainability is ultimately self-defeating. Prosperity built on the despoliation of the natural environment is no prosperity at all, only a temporary reprieve from future disaster. The issue is not environment vs. development or ecology vs. economy...
Still, there are those like Paul Hanly, 36, a third-generation white Zimbabwean who plans to plant his tobacco seedlings on Sept. 1, as he has every year. Last week he was building an irrigation system to water a maize field to feed his workers, who have been left hungry because of the food shortages. Though he too was instructed to vacate his farm, Hanly is convinced he will be allowed to remain--and that a more peaceful solution to redistribution can still be found. He paused for a few seconds. "We must be a country of great believers...
...come cheap. Q&A TIME: What are your goals for your second term? Kabbah: To stabilize the peace process and rehabilitate and reconstruct our infrastructure. I've vowed that no Sierra Leonean will go to bed hungry. We want to show that we as a nation are able to feed ourselves. TIME: So why, when you've been in office since 1996, does Sierra Leone continue to rank last in the U.N.D.P's list? Kabbah: The data they had were from the war, and during that time more than half the country was under the control of the rebels. Also...
...rise in marine-mammal deaths to a sharp increase in toxic plankton blooms--great eruptions of poisonous algae in the sea. As the toxins from these tiny plants pass up the food chain, they become increasingly concentrated until they contaminate the fish on which seals, sea lions and whales feed. Suspected causes of the blooms: the inadvertent fertilization of coastal waters by agriculture runoffs and, most alarmingly, the rise in seawater temperatures from global warming. If so, the death of the whales last week off Cape Cod could be a warning...
...history of trading friendly relations and empty promises for monetary assistance, is merely giving the world another head fake. His market reforms, according to skeptics, are designed not to liberalize the economy but to control the informal black markets that burgeoned during the famine, when the government could not feed everybody...