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...Heroes of the Environment It may sound absurd, but I am truly sad that I did not yet contribute much to the well-being of Earth to be enlisted as one of the Heroes of the Environment [Oct. 28]. Ever since environmental issues inspired me in elementary school, I have worried that I might have to fight this war against global deterioration alone. However, I realized there is no need to worry; there are many people who take environment issues seriously and act to make a difference. I am only 18, not yet knowledgable or influential enough to change...
...find it ironic that none of the heroes has touched with the proverbial barge pole the root cause of Earth's numerous environmental challenges: unchecked population growth. This politically incorrect issue is apparently too religiously and nationalistically fraught to tackle. As our little planet hurtles toward a projected population of 9.4 billion by 2050, however, I suspect that the topic will eventually come into vogue. Stephen Ehrenberg, Stavanger, Norway...
...come from the Niger Delta, where multinational companies are exploring for oil, a process that involves the flaring of large quantities of gas. I had never been concerned about these continuous gas flares until about 10 years ago, when I read Al Gore's book Earth in the Balance. My interest in environmentalism was further aroused by the 2004 award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai, who was also named among your Heroes. Thank you for taking out time to celebrate these and other people who are working so hard to protect our planetary home. Timi Songi, Yenagoa...
...into three parts by time period, and the parts broken into chapters by, apparently, whatever Ross felt like. His command of the material is so complete, and his guidance through it so gentle, that although some of the groupings he proposes seem opaque (“Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz;” “Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties”), with a little reading and a little faith the connections soon become clear.The effortless brilliance of his modular style is that, after building...
...Harvard researcher is devising a plan to take on two of the greatest threats to the Earth’s future—acid rain and global warming. Kurt Z. House, a research assistant in earth and planetary sciences, proposed a process known as electrochemical weathering, which increases the alkalinity—or basic pH level—of the Earth’s oceans to reduce the damage caused by acid rain and decrease carbon levels in the atmosphere. The natural ability of oceans to remove carbon from the air has suffered due to pollution-induced acid rain. House...