Word: planetful
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...some disillusioned youngsters have been insisting on eating elsewhere. A few have even been picketing McDonald's stores. To urge a boycott of the company's outlets, Kurtiz Schneid, a New Jersey high school student, demonstrated in front of the United Nations dressed as "Ronald McToxic." His message: "The planet deserves a break today...
Second, it was during the 1980s that mankind for the first time seriously began to think in ecological terms. The need for radically reassessing the relationship between mankind and the planet was made manifest by Chernobyl, acid rain, ozone-layer depletion, the greenhouse effect, vanishing forests and freshwater shortages. The ecological movement is now on the rise. Government policies are beginning to change. International ecological cooperation has begun. Yet it will take a tremendous effort to overcome the inertia of mindless devastation of the environment, or even restrain the inertia generated by the industrial...
...Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) said last year that debating flag burning laws is like "chasing a gnat around the light bulb as the planet is burning down." If a few key legislators have their way, Congress this summer is going to try chasing that gnat all over again--and this time, it may actually catch...
CFCs, used as refrigerants and solvents, are believed to be destroying the planet's ozone layer, and President Bush has joined in a worldwide call for a sharp cut in their use. But by refusing to supply additional funds to help Third World countries switch to substitutes, the U.S. would make reductions difficult. The White House argues that the money should come from existing World Bank funds and not from new contributions -- but also admits that the World Bank does not have the extra money available...
...planet's oldest, deepest and largest lake, Baikal is about the size of Belgium and accounts for a fifth of the world's freshwater reserves. The threat to this unique ecosystem, home to more than 1,000 species of plants and animals unknown anywhere else, stimulated a vociferous Soviet environmental movement. Baikal, says Siberian activist Valentin Rasputin, contains "such pulchritude as to be unimaginable this side of paradise...