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Modern technology is already pressuring nature with tens of thousands of synthetic substances, many of which almost totally resist decay???thus poisoning man's fellow creatures, to say nothing of himself. The burden includes smog fumes, aluminum cans that do not rust, inorganic plastics that may last for decades, floating oil that can change the thermal reflectivity of oceans, and radioactive wastes whose toxicity lingers for literally hundreds of years. The earth has its own waste-disposal system, but it has limits. The winds that ventilate earth are only six miles high; toxic garbage can kill the tiny organisms that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting to Save the Earth from Man | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...convince the world?both our enemies and our allies?that America is strong and freedom is strong. He can't wring his hands that America is second-rate?because America is not second-rate. He can't cry out about moral decay???because this generation is not a generation of decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Reverberating Issue | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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