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...answers to this defiant dilemma. But he regards Appalachia as a microcosm of America. Unless deterioration can be stopped here, we will have proved ourselves an ungoverning and ungovernable people. If greed-and-need continues to dictate, Caudill predicts, strip mines will next "demolish the West as a viable ecosystem...
...Appalled by such widespread pollution, ecologists are more determined than ever to save the nation's shorelines and estuaries. They have begun to appreciate more fully the importance of coastal areas in the complex interaction of the land, air and sea environments that make up the North American ecosystem. Coastal areas, for example, provide the habitat and food for thousands of species, many of which find their way to the dinner table. "An acre of marshland produces more protein than an acre of corn," says Edward Daly, chief of the wetlands division of the Connecticut department of agriculture...
...effects, ants will not touch food that has been doused with 2,5-dichlorophenol. Thus, the scientists concluded, the herbicide had become an effective component of the grasshopper's defense-the first known instance of an insect's using as a weapon a chemical "unleashed upon the ecosystem...
...breakthroughs from 1900 to 1965. Included were such striking individual achievements as Weber's analyses of bureaucracy, Gandhi's ideas on nonviolent action, and Mao Tse-tung's theories of peasant and guerrilla organization, as well as concepts developed by scholarly teams: general systems analysis, cybernetics, ecosystem theories and structural linguistics. The researchers constructed their own criteria for inclusion on the list. One key question: Did the advance lead to further knowledge rather than merely having an impact on social science practice...
Industry's problem is almost as complex as an ecosystem. Because many environmental standards differ from state to state, industries in lenient states have an economic edge over competitors in tough states?and thus an incentive to resist pollution abatement. If they close polluting plants, moreover, they throw employees out of work, and employment is part of a corporation's social responsibility. Beyond this is the problem of who shall pay for anti-pollution devices. Ultimately the consumer, of course, but how much will he accept...