Word: environmentalist
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...significant than the differences in their views. Both support open markets in principle, but Bush is the more evangelical free trader: He pushed hard earlier this year for congressional passage of a bill to normalize trade relations with China, while Gore remained reticent to avoid alienating his labor and environmentalist supporters. Yet Bush and his advisers also denounce the administration for pursuing a "strategic partnership" with Beijing and for being too friendly with a corrupt and ruthless Russian government. Gore says he would negotiate with Moscow on changes to the Antiballistic Missile Treaty to allow the U.S. to build...
There is hardly any issue in the current presidential race that seems as clear-cut as the environment. While Vice President Al Gore '69 is as close as it gets to being an environmentalist in government, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, as the Economist put it, "has never suggested he cares." Their respective records back up this image of the two candidates. Gore, author of the 1992 manifesto Earth in the Balance, is an avid supporter of the Kyoto protocol--a 1997 commitment signed by over 100 countries to stem global emissions of greenhouse gases. Alternatively, Bush's home state...
...Gore the environmentalist also got in a few good shots (attacking Texas? grim air quality and somehow getting Bush to assert "we don?t know the whole cause behind" global warming) before he went totally off-track and used a passage from the New Testament to defend his tree-hugger status. Bush came back with his usual line: "This is not a matter for federal jurisdiction...
...Environment Minister and son of the pro-development former President. In Acre, the frontier state where environmental martyr Chico Mendes was assassinated in 1988 by ranchers angered by his efforts to halt deforestation, change is more drastic. The current Governor, Jorge Viana, was elected in 1988 in an explicitly environmentalist campaign. He has since shelved plans from the previous administration to pave 2,000 km of roads in the state. (Viana was chosen by Time in 1999 as one of its regional Leaders for the New Millennium...
...much an environmentalist as a conservationist?he loathes waste of any sort?baranek gets 70% of the 1,200 cu m of wood Cemex exports monthly from lands where he has aggressively pushed replanting from the outset. His partners and employees try to encourage neighbors to reduce their vulnerability to fire. But most lack the means to take effective action even if they have the will. He wonders why the government can?t settle the landless on land that is not virgin forest. ?incra dumps people in the forest and thinks they are finished with their responsibilities,? he says...