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David R. Brower, L.H.D., conservationist and founder of Friends of the Earth...
Though no tankers have foundered around Bermuda, there are ominous signs of growing oil pollution in the area. For one, the island's famous pink beaches are now marred by traces of tar. Another sign shows up in studies made by David Wingate, a government conservationist. In 1968, he found oil clotting the underfeathers of 1 in every 100 longtails, a graceful sea bird that breeds in Bermuda. This year the ratio rose to 1 in 4. Wingate believes that floating particles of tar-perhaps caused by tankers pumping, out their tanks, smear the birds as they...
Comparisons to McCarthy, though, can be misleading. While sharing McCarthy's sincerity and distaste for demagoguery, the squarejawed, handsome McCloskey is more Kennedyesque in appeal. The father of four, he is a dedicated conservationist and at least once a year tries to head for Jackson Hole, Wyo., or the High Sierra for backpacking and fishing. He comes across well on television. After his 1967 race, McCloskey took a poll. It showed that of the people who had voted for him, only 5% did so because they knew his views and agreed with them, while 84% admitted they...
Last week the Department of Commerce, prompted by ecologists, decreed that U.S. fishermen may no longer hunt whales. As sometimes happens, it was a gesture of conservationist piety made too late. Only three whaling ships remain in the U.S.: they are operated by the Del Monte Fishing Co. of San Francisco. The firm's manager, Charles Caito, says that his men took only 109 of the 21,000 whales killed in the North Pacific last year. All the other prosaic Ahabs are Russian or Japanese, who will not be affected by the ban. They must, presumably, await the wrath...
...rest of Italy, is just now getting around to considering environmental legislation. Laws are severely overdue to control, for example, the unregulated building boom that threatens to turn much of Italy into a concrete wilderness. "There is not the slightest evidence of conscience or concern for the future," complains Conservationist Antonio Cederna. "Every protest suffocates against the mattress of political inertia." A spokesman for the powerful Farmers Union warns that unchecked water pollution has cut the production of fodder by 60% and increased mortality among cattle. Though industry is hardly the sole culprit in polluting Italy's waterways...