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...themes into movies and TV to the formation of action groups by the rich and famous, the entertainment industry is mobilizing to help solve the environmental crisis. "We have all realized we're on the front lines," says British rock star Sting, who is campaigning worldwide to save the Brazilian rain forest. "We have access to information and can transmit it through the media...
...their qualms, environmentalists concede that Bush has taken several commendable steps. Among them: proposing new regulations on medical-waste disposal, requesting stiffer penalties for ocean dumpers, calling for a moratorium on offshore oil drilling in Florida and California, and helping persuade Japan not to finance construction of a Brazilian road that would encourage continued deforestation of the Amazon region...
Among the world's untamed and unexplored regions, there is none richer than the Amazon Basin. For decades, Brazilian governments have sought to protect from foreign exploitation the vast rain forest's gold and minerals, oil and gas, hardwoods and cattle ranges. The great push to settle and industrialize the Amazon has been propelled in part by the government's determination to prevent neighboring countries and multinational corporations from making off with the riches that Brazilians regard as their national patrimony. Despite the precautions, however, the dreaded foreign invasion has finally come. Its name: environmentalism...
Last week the Brazilian government sought to quell the outcry with an ambitious new environmental program. The plan, titled Our Nature, was announced by Sarney during a full-dress ceremony at Brasilia's Planalto Palace. To a chorus of applause from Brazil's top military brass and nine state governors, Sarney outlined a program that would be set into motion by 35 new decrees and proposed laws. Among other things, the plan calls...
...Sarney fell far short of his goal. Just days before Our Nature was announced, a group of 28 Latin American intellectuals, none of them Brazilian, issued a stinging open letter to Sarney accusing him of a "policy of ecocide and ethnocide" in the Amazon. The statement called for an immediate halt to "massive deforestation" and other "acts of barbarism." Among the signers were three prominent novelists: Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico and Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru...