Word: environmentalist
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...aren’t these the rantings of a typically alarmist environmentalist? Well, guilty as charged. All these things will not necessarily happen in the next fifty or hundred years. Heck, maybe they will not even happen at all. By the time we find out, however, it will be too late. However, I should note that the scientific community is almost unanimous in its findings about the global effects of increasing carbon emissions and the threat of subsequent environmental disasters. The Earth is extremely delicate and relatively small changes can throw off its equilibrium. As a human race we cannot...
Scott Sandberg, an environmentalist who transformed the recycling program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, died Friday in an avalanche while climbing New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington...
...engine, no steering column and no brake pedal. It requires no gasoline, emits no pollution (just a little water vapor) and yet handles like a high-performance Porsche. It might sound like an environmentalist's fantasy, but there it was on display at the Paris Auto Show last September: the Hy-wire, a politically correct, fully functional prototype that General Motors claims could be road ready by 2010. Other car manufacturers--including Toyota, Honda and Ford--are working on post-fossil-fuel automobiles, but only GM has rethought the car from the ground up, adopting an impressive array of advanced...
Perhaps the biggest blunder the proactive environmentalist folks made was to coin the phrase "Save the Earth." It should be "Save the Human Race." We are egotistical to believe that humans can kill the earth. The earth will survive. It will be mankind that will not endure. CHRISTI E. GEORGE Fayetteville...
...consumer behavior, may be the single most important reason why more than 700 of the world's leading corporations (among them major oil companies and auto manufacturers) have gone to Johannesburg to tout their earth-friendly credentials. Indeed, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has worked hard to promote business-environmentalist partnership as a key component of a strategy to protect the environment. So, while the planet may be a long way from being saved, when the corporate titans so often accused of being among its worst abusers see the need to spend two weeks making common cause with the tree...