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...authorities viewed ecological concerns with suspicion and scorn, as if they were part of an international plot to thwart the country's development. All that was supposed to change with the March 1990 inauguration of Fernando Collor de Mello, Brazil's first President with a green heart. Collor named Jose Lutzenberger, one of the world's foremost champions of rain-forest preservation, head of a new environment secretariat. The President also vowed to reverse decades of untrammeled development that destroyed 415,000 sq km (160,000 sq. mi.) -- an area the size of Iraq -- of the Amazon rain forest...
...former Environment Secretary goes right to the core of the Rio summit agenda. Lutzenberger refused to endorse Collor's version of "sustainable development" -- the notion that preservation of Brazil's rain forests and other natural resources is compatible with economic growth. The interim Secretary, a nuclear physicist named Jose Goldemberg, is a strong advocate of this vision of controlled development...
Assistant Managing Editor: Jose M. Ferrer...
...Some highlights of the agenda: an Open Speakers Forum, whose guest list includes U.S. presidential candidate Jerry Brown and former Brazilian Environment Minister Jose Lutzenberger, and a debate on the possible creation of an International Green Cross...
...Laurel Fortuner, from her winning entry in the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest for wretched writing, sponsored by San Jose State University