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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...
That uncertainty showed up clearly in a poll of U.S. households taken for TIME late last month by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Fully 94% of 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...
Amid the confusion, the U.S. environmental movement is stumbling badly. In November voters turned down a passel of overly ambitious environmental initiatives at the state level, throwing the responsibility for policy back to elected officials, with whom it belongs. There is little hope, however, that either Congress or the White...
The story is no better outside the U.S. Efforts to come to grips with global climate change amount to a desultory drift from conference to conference, without international leadership or any agreement about what should be done. The destruction of tropical rain forests continues unabated. All around the world, the...
Environmentalists must share part of the blame: they have not offered a coherent plan of action either domestically or internationally. Admits Lester Brown, president of the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute: "The agenda is fairly confused. A number of environmental groups have grown up independently, with their own memberships, their own...