Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, all an infant has to experience is a totally new and alien environment, first contact with other beings, the mechanical coordination of his own four-limbed machine and the mastery of a foreign language without textbook! Paul High tower Lexington, Ky.
...United Nations this week issued its annual "state of the environment" report to the people of the world. Presented this year by Mostafa Kamal Tolba, an Egyptian microbiologist who is executive director of the U.N.'s Environment Program, the 15-page document acknowledges that there are some environmental success stories -in efforts to cut down oil pollution of the seas, clean up rivers, safeguard certain species of wildlife and prevent the misuse of pesticides. But the report focuses on four areas in which man's activities are proving hazardous to the environment and to life itself...
CANCER. Some forms of cancer are caused by such natural factors as heredity and viruses. But many cancers are brought on-especially in the industrialized parts of the world-by environmental factors. As the U.N. report explains, the cancers "relate to the air people breathe or the water they drink, to the environment in which they work or live, to their personal diet or way of life." In industrialized societies, environmental factors have already been proved to be responsible for up to 40% of all human cancers; for example, doctors have found a high incidence of an otherwise rare form...
...report notes that some countries have acted unilaterally to lessen the environmental ills that plague them. For example, it commends the U.S. for its actions to discourage use of fluorocarbons and to monitor workers' exposure to cancer-causing substances; it praises Pakistan for a massive reforestation program aimed at preventing soil erosion and the silting of dams and rivers. But it also warns that these unilateral moves are not enough to remove the threats to man's well-being and calls for international collaboration "on a scale not seen so far in the history of mankind" to save...
Energy in limitless supply from a universally available fuel. Energy created by a process that is relatively harmless to the environment and leaves behind no byproduct that can be converted into dangerous weapons. To a world facing the long, frigid night of fuel shortages, it seems like a glorious dream...