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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ames is a tough target for environmentalists because he devised the test that is used to determine whether chemicals are carcinogenic. Nonetheless, Janet Hathaway of the Natural Resources Defense Council argues that talk about natural carcinogens deflects attention from industry's responsibility for environmental risks. Ames, she says, exaggerates levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Endangered Earth Update Now Wait Just a Minute | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The scientist believes lack of computing power -- as well as ignorance about such critical factors as the interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere, and the impact of clouds on surface temperatures -- limits the ability to predict the greenhouse effect. "It's possible that Washington will see 96 days of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Endangered Earth Update Now Wait Just a Minute | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

"Think Globally, Act Locally" was the watchword of environmental activism from its beginning in the '60s. That advice is as appropriate now as it was then. Just as the Green movement started more than two decades ago not with governments but at the grass roots, so today it is individuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Earth U.S. Agenda Consumers It's Not Easy Being Green | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Environmentalists can suggest a multitude of ways to do that: recycle paper, aluminum, tin, glass, motor oil and car batteries. Reuse bottles, containers and shopping bags, or at least choose paper bags over plastic at the supermarket. And do not be fooled by the BIODEGRADABLE label on some new plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Earth U.S. Agenda Consumers It's Not Easy Being Green | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

While the contents of the trash can are easy to see, the all-but-invisible fumes that pour out of automobile tail pipes are just as damaging to the environment. Every time Americans climb behind the wheel, they make their own personal contribution to the global-warming threat. Here again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Earth U.S. Agenda Consumers It's Not Easy Being Green | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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