Word: eco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action of Idaho Transfer begins during what one character calls "an eco-crisis" that threatens to make America barren and kill off its population. At a Government project somewhere in the Idaho countryside, a scientist is supposed to be working on material transfer-the transportation of physical objects into the future. But he has got rather ahead of himself and discovered a means of moving people forward in time. He shares the secret of his time machine only with a staff of young people, which includes his two daughters. Because these young staffers are the only people whose bodies...
...emergency took hold, the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square were dimmed in order to conserve electricity. TIME asked British Satirist and Author Auberon Waugh (son of Novelist Evelyn Waugh) to comment on the mood of the nation in the midst of its latest eco nomic crises. His acerbic reflections, which represent a sig nificant minority opinion in Britain...
Julian Moynahan, who lives near Princeton and teaches English at Rutgers, knows his ground. Out of such unpromising material as New Jersey zoning laws and state statutes, he has fashioned a whimsical specimen of an up-and-coming subgenre: the eco-novel. The wealthy residents-Howard's ex-neighbors-want nothing to despoil the green splendor of their homes and three-acre lots. Less favored citizens want Watchung-because it will help to pay property taxes...
Uniformed guards with dogs kept a wary watch on the tent city erected by youthful environmentalists at the abandoned airport of Skarpnäck, but the violent demonstrations the police feared never came. Instead, the students put on gentle "eco-skits" to dramatize "eco-catastrophes." In one, for example, a girl painted as a skeleton and accompanied by drums and cymbals danced a warning about the radioactive fallout from French nuclear-bomb tests in the Pacific. Total damage to property caused by such activities: one broken window...
...eco-freak...If it came down to a fish or me the fish would lose out," Barry Commoner told an audience of 350 last in Burden Hall...