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...story is no better outside the U.S. Efforts to come to grips with global climate change amount to a desultory drift from conference to conference, without international leadership or any agreement about what should be done. The destruction of tropical rain forests continues unabated. All around the world, the expectations of Earth Day have given way to enervating debate and procrastination...
...environmentalists must accept part of the blame for the present policy paralysis, they also deserve credit for some noteworthy victories this year. In a remarkably swift turnabout, Japan agreed to phase out its large-scale drift-net operations in the Pacific. Under pressure, Taiwan and South Korea have also agreed to curb the use of the giant nets, which indiscriminately trap turtles and marine mammals along with fish. In the U.S. the Interior Department banned offshore drilling in a number of sensitive areas for 10 years, buying time to understand better the interaction of oil and delicate marine ecosystems...
...SimEarth, as in the real world, the great natural processes that shape the environment -- volcanoes, erosion, continental drift -- interact with one another. Climate, vegetation and geology are represented as interrelated systems, each with controls that can be adjusted. Animals multiplying too fast? Just crank down the reproduction dial. Tired of waiting for evolution to work its wonders? Just speed up the mutation rate. Earth getting too hot for its own good? Just turn off the greenhouse effect...
...scrutiny process in the United States--not only from people in the traditional peace constituency but people whose job was war," Maksoud said. "They are not part of the liberal establishment but part and parcel of the establishment and they are having fears of an eventual drift to a military option...
...there is also a genuine concern about the apparent drift toward war for uncertain or ill-defined goals. Perhaps most striking was a request from Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana that the recessed Congress be called back into special session to debate a possible declaration of war. Lugar seemed confident that the Senate would back the President, if not in a declaration of war then in a more general resolution of support for his policy toward Saddam Hussein. But that is uncertain, and a close vote might suggest that Congress is not solidly united and thus prove highly damaging...