Word: earths
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...Gore. Moreover, some politicians fall back on the uncertainty argument, asserting that the enactment of costly preventive measures now, before all the evidence is in, would invite economic disaster. Still others use the debate as an opportunity to portray Democratic presidential contender Gore, author of the environmental tract Earth in the Balance and the U.S. representative at Kyoto, as an environmental extremist...
...consensus that human activity is contributing to global warming." Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, another Democratic hopeful, acknowledged that it was a "serious threat." But the G.O.P. candidates sounded less certain. Texas Governor George W. Bush, his party's front runner, and Elizabeth Dole both agreed that the earth is getting warmer but professed to be agnostic about the cause, saying only that the question should be taken "seriously." Steve Forbes, for his part, had no doubts: "I don't believe it," he said of global warming...
...Gravity mournful strings underscore the observation that a high-flying fling can be brought to earth by "the weight of circumstance"--by capricious gravity...
...future generations regard the vanishing Quelccaya ice cap as a false prophet or as a climatological Cassandra whose warnings were not heeded? Ohio State's Thompson, for one, believes nature has already answered this question. An ice cap has no political opinions, he observes. "Quelccaya is melting because the earth's temperature is going up," he says, "and it's foolish to argue that...
...says, "the environment cannot be separated from the economy, housing, civil rights and human rights. How we distribute the goods of the earth is the best measure of our democracy." He gestures at the open water. "It's not about advocating for fishes and birds. It's about human rights...