Word: eco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eaters And Other Eco-Centrics...
...commercial designer in Los Angeles. "It's all potential pollution." In his hands, a discarded beer barrel becomes a leather-slung chair, old railroad ties turn into thick benches, tin cans take on new life as lamps. "Salvaged waste has value," agrees George Korper, proprietor of the Eco-Center store in Greenwich, Conn., which sells things like telephone-cable spools as $2 patio tables. Going one better, Mrs. Jerrald Dixon of Crown Point, Ind., makes "Old Woman in the Shoe" table centerpieces with plaster figures and her husband's worn-out Army boots...
...could be unsettling. Last week Data Resources Inc., an economic consulting firm headed by Harvard's Otto Eckstein, a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, made some projections for TIME. By analyzing 320 eco nomic equations in a computer, Data Resources projected what the econ omy would have looked like in this year's fourth quarter had there been no strike, and compared these results with what is likely to hap pen if the work stoppage lasts six weeks or twelve weeks...
...eco-theologians argue that man's despoliation of nature has drawn encouragement in part from mistaken or misapplied Christian concepts. By correcting those concepts, they hope to bolster environmental concern with something that goes beyond moral fervor or social awareness. The God of Genesis, say these thinkers, did not give man a blank check when he said: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion . . . over every living thing." Too often this has been used as a text for exploitation, reducing nature to a collection of useful objects...
Like any topical issue, eco-theology has yielded its share of trendy superficiality. Sometimes the discussions are so earthy that the name of God hardly comes up. But the movement also has produced at least one substantial event: the recent conference in the School of Theology at Claremont, Calif., at which 20 scholars, including Fisher and DeWolf, strove to promulgate "a theology of survival." One of the papers delivered there-by Claremont Theologian John B. Cobb Jr., originator of the conference-amounts to the most cogent statement yet of where philosophical and religious thought has gone wrong in abetting...