Word: eco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the ecoactivists staged a "Damn DDT Day" in San Francisco's Union Square. The movement has its own songs including a cutting eco-version of America the Beautiful. The lyrics...
Such an occurrence is known in the trade as an "eco-catastrophe." in other words, a situation in which the ecology of the earth is irretrieyably disturbed. Little mini-eco-catastrophes have been happening ever since man arrived on the scene. In the South, Pacific collectors, naturalists, and trumpeters on hundreds of islands have been picking up tritons off the coral reefs and beaches to get their conch shells. The tritons cat the starfish which prey on the coral animals that build up the reefs. Because there are now so many people on the earth, they are now picking...
Others are helpfully summarized in the current issue of Cry California, an eco logically astute magazine that deserves to be better known outside its state...
...large sections of the nation. A full-employment economy is a delicate mechanism, the clash of powerful forces, notably labor and management. Both forces will have to accept new atti tudes, new compromises and, above all, new restraint if the U.S. is to achieve price stability while maintaining its eco nomic freedoms...
...fair share of our national prosperity. The gap between farm income and income in other parts of our economy-the prosperity gap-must be eliminated." It made fine campaign oratory, but the truth is that the Johnson Administration can do only so much in the face of the harsh eco nomic facts that are making the small, family farmer even more a figure of the American past...