Word: environmentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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VISIT ITALY NOW, BEFORE THE ITALIANS DESTROY IT said one European travel poster. And Environmentalist Roberto Brambilla-who compiled the catalogue to a heartbreaking exhibit of photographs entitled "Italy-Too Late to Be Saved?", now on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City-put the point no less bitterly: "How can a nation's heritage be saved when her own people fail to recognize it as their own irreplaceable culture?" The overriding threat is not posed by iconoclastic maniacs like Toth but by eminently respectable town mayors, government planners and chairmen of land-development companies, whose greed...
Joining forces with other environmentalist groups, the pair put together the most sweeping antipollution law ever submitted to a statewide vote. If put into effect, the 23-part measure would ban new coastal oil drilling, impose a five-year moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants, outlaw DDT and other "hard" pesticides, sharply reduce the sulfur content in diesel fuel and phase out all lead additives in gasoline. It would impose harsh fines on air polluters-.4% of their gross annual incomes daily. It would also bar from environmental-control boards anyone with a financial interest in any automotive...
Some A.A.A.S. leaders sympathized so strongly with the dissenters that they went out of their way to praise the petulant protests. Environmentalist Barry Commoner, who is a member of the association's board of directors, rebuked Moynihan for his walkout and said that the protests against Humphrey may well have stiffened the Senator's disapproval of U.S. policies in Southeast Asia, which Commoner also has heartily denounced. Added retiring A.A.A.S. President Athelstan Spilhaus: "If there weren't these disruptions, it would mean that these meetings were not significant...
...what they had lost. Counterploys. With that decision, and a legislative loosening of other ground rules, California became the class-action capital of the states. At about the same time, Congress broadened the rules under which federal courts could treat class actions, opening the way for the consumer movement, environmentalist groups and public-interest law firms to spread the procedure nationwide. Worried defendants have already devised at least two counterploys. They seek to stall the suit, hoping that the class representatives will die, lose interest or move away. Or they meet the representatives' individual claims in the hope that...
...stark contrast, he continued, "the so-called environmentalist movement" is endemic to rich nations, where the most rabid crusaders tend to be well-fed urbanites who sample the delights of nature on weekend outings. Borlaug feels that campaigns to ban agricultural chemicals-starting with DDT-reveal a callous misordering of social priorities. If such bans become law, he warned, "then the world will be doomed not by chemical poisoning but by starvation...