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Most of all, it requires international cooperation on an unprecedented scale. No nation can cordon itself off from the effects of its neighbors' pollution. Radioactive fallout from Chernobyl swept across most of the European continent. Canadian lakes are being poisoned by the belchings of U.S. smokestacks. The torching of Brazil...
The industrialized nations must therefore persuade the Third World to % embrace the goal of sustainable development -- economic growth that relies only on renewable resources and does not permanently damage the environment. But the debt-burdened developing nations cannot be expected to do so without an enormous influx of funds and...
Ozone Depletion. Next April, representatives from scores of countries will meet in London to complete the agreement to phase out CFC production by the year 2000. But unless all major nations accept the ban, efforts to halt ozone depletion may prove fruitless.
In these and other areas, America must play a leading role. Not only is the U.S., as a wealthy, technologically advanced nation, in a position to help others achieve sustainable development; the country also has a moral responsibility to do so. After all, the U.S. consumes a disproportionate amount of...
Several weeks earlier, TIME had convened a group of 14 scientists and policymakers for an all-day conference on the environmental crisis. The meeting, held in Alexandria, Va., and organized by Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, was a follow-up to a 1988 ecological symposium that led to TIME's selection...