The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

The Heyday of the Environmental Movement, 1960–1979 145 spirit by all countries, big or small, on an equal footing. Cooperation ...

146 The Environmental Debate to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered species and threatened species, and to ...

The Heyday of the Environmental Movement, 1960–1979 147 logging and fire roads have been eradicated. Such areas are now used onl ...

148 The Environmental Debate “That’s right, honey,” he said. “And that’s why.” “You can’t. “There’s a way.” Source: Edward Abbey ...

The Heyday of the Environmental Movement, 1960–1979 149 human greed and ignorance. Through an understanding of the principles of ...

In the 1980s the Reagan administration, partly due to its pro- corporate and anti-big-government stance, attempted to eviscerate ...

Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980–1999 151 particular environmental hazard is frequently based on how the hazard o ...

152 The Environmental Debate want to live in [see Documents 123], they advocate immediate and sometimes radical action. Intensif ...

Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980–1999 153 Using arid lands for home construction, agriculture, or grazing creates ...

154 The Environmental Debate emerged as a new force of nature. We are modify- ing physical, chemical, and biological systems in ...

Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980–1999 155 (8) (A) criteria for determining priorities among releases or threatene ...

156 The Environmental Debate DOCUMENT 125: Mark Sagoff on the Public Interest (1981) The political philosopher Mark Sagoff objec ...

Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980–1999 157 DOCUMENT 126: Lester R. Brown on Building a Sustainable Society (1981) ...

158 The Environmental Debate will require labor force skills markedly different from those of the current oil-based economy. * * ...

Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980–1999 159 DOCUMENT 128: Coastal Barrier Resources Act (1981) Much of the energy o ...

160 The Environmental Debate (2) coastal barriers contain resources of extraordinary scenic, scientific, recrea- tional, natural ...

Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980–1999 161 and the Environment and the Subcommittee on Oceanography of the Committ ...

162 The Environmental Debate DOCUMENT 130: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1983) The Law of the Sea is probably ...

Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980–1999 163 (i) the establishment and use of artificial islands, installations and ...

164 The Environmental Debate mining,” because within less than a century there will be very little left to mine—no copper, no ti ...