Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...product of an affluent society taken to the nth degree," says Minister of Planning Sulaiman Mutawa. "Everywhere," remarks Ali Jaber al-Sabah, a KPC managing director, "there was the spirit of ba'dain, of 'tomorrow.' Any real change was put off. 'Why bother?' people would say. 'We're making money, the country as a company is making a good return. We'll decide the hard things tomorrow.' But of course tomorrow never came...
That is true in other countries as well. Swedish school kids have bought and preserved 65,000 hectares (160,000 acres) of virgin rain forest in Costa Rica with money earned collecting old newspapers and recycling aluminum cans. Japanese students have mounted a campaign to eliminate disposable wooden chopsticks and replace them with reusable plastic models. Children in one Soviet town were able to persuade the sluggish local government to hasten construction of a roundabout that would allow traffic to bypass the center of town and thus reduce pollution. In Brazil the number of nongovernment environmental groups has swelled from...
...those surveyed considered protecting the environment a very important issue, and 63% supported stronger laws and regulations to get the job done. But when it comes to financing preservation, the public is sharply divided. Of the people polled, 48% were willing to "go full speed ahead" in "spending money to clean up the environment," but 47% said that, given other national problems, it would be better to "go slow." Despite their desire for a cleaner environment, 64% admitted that they personally "should be doing more" to achieve that goal. Perhaps the most revealing finding in the survey was that...
...partly because they feared it would mean new government intrusions into their lives. Regulations that lead to the creation of new bureaucracies are not attractive to citizens who are fed up with the inefficiency of government red tape. "People want to be more certain and careful about how their money is spent to clean up the environment," says Sheldon Kamieniecki, an associate professor at the University of Southern California...
...spills, and it has made a commitment to lessen the impact of its exploration operations on rain forests and other sensitive ecosystems. The Houston-based oil company made the happy discovery in Gabon that shrinking the size of drilling areas and roads to minimize damage to forests saved money as well as trees...