Word: environmentalism
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...breakneck quest for economic growth, the world's most populous nation has created no shortage of environmental disasters-just as other countries did when they, too, industrialized. But the Chinese people are growing impatient with the costs of unchecked development. Around the country, citizens are volunteering for cleanup projects. A small, courageous network of NGOs is naming and shaming the worst polluters. The huge number of pollution-related protests-an estimated 50,000 took place in 2005-unambiguously demonstrates grass-roots resentment of the ecological burden of industrialization. So did a survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project about...
He delivered a master class that night in taking on Ronald Reagan - not with heavy-handed scaremongering but rather with a light touch that was all the more devastating for its sense of incredulity. "The same Republicans who are talking about preserving the environment have nominated a man who last...
Trees are present more among farmlands in the dense tropical areas of Southeast Asia and Central America, along with much of South America. The proportion is lower in sub-Saharan Africa - although Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement has helped plant more than 30 million trees for...
The cartel is dead and has been replaced by a brutally competitive environment in which the price of trading has plunged. It's a market in which exchanges do constant battle over trading volume. The biggest volume generators at the moment are high-frequency trading firms you've never heard...
Supporters of the harsh interrogations say they were conducted in a highly controlled environment: doctors were on hand to monitor the health of detainees, strict limitations were placed on the extent and frequency with which the techniques were applied. But waterboarding a detainee 183 times - not to mention the use...