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All around the world, there were signs that people were beginning to heed that message. In the U.S. a Gallup poll indicated that 3 of every 4 Americans consider themselves environmentalists. The level of public concern is so high, says Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island, that pro-environmental...
Such grass-roots pressure gave added impetus to some major international initiatives. In Basel last March, 105 nations tentatively agreed to place strict curbs on international shipments of hazardous waste. Meeting in Helsinki in May, representatives of 86 countries declared their intention to phase out their production and use of...
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...
International efforts to preserve the biosphere will not succeed unless the Third World goes along with them. The irony is that the laissez-faire, free- market rules that allowed the industrial world to prosper must now be suspended. "If the developing nations, home to 8 out of 10 people, repeat...
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...