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...some extent, it may seem unreasonable to ask China and India to embrace the long-overdue wave of environmental consciousness that has finally passed through America. After all, the U.S., now a global economic, military, and political powerhouse, reached the pinnacle of its success with blatant disregard for environmental implications, exploiting resources and emitting carbon dioxide at rates that placed the world in its current binding predicament starting during the Industrial Revolution. As China and India now undergo periods of rapid growth and approach huge upswings in development, it is unrealistic to expect them to forego economic gain in order...
...likely to turn down the opportunity to grow in the present in order to contribute to a solution in the future. A potential means to induce the cooperation of economically-expanding China and India is to financially compensate the two countries for losses incurred as a result of environmental conservation. The system could be sustained by a common pool comprised of money contributed by members of the developing world; the level of contribution of each country could be assessed in proportion to the nation’s level of environmental destruction and energy consumption. By supporting a continued exponential economic...
Silva, the new Environment Minister, cut an especially peculiar figure as she ambled timidly into view. While most of the crowd standing under a burning sun wore T-shirts and shorts or miniskirts and halter tops, Silva, a hard-core Evangelical Protestant in the world's biggest Catholic country, was...
Worse, it confirmed what many green activists had long feared - that the fig leaf Silva had provided her boss was stripped away, leaving his image unprotected and exposed, like the environment itself.
Veronez and his allies are betting that Silva's replacement will have no more power than she did. The man who has accepted Lula's invitation to replace her is Carlos Minc, until Wednesday the environment secretary in Rio de Janeiro state. Minc is respected as a true believer, even...