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Fuzzy math and scare tactics might help green groups raise money, but when they, abetted by an environmentally friendly media, overplay their hand, it invites scathing critiques like that of Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg, whose book The Skeptical Environmentalist debunks environmental exaggerations...
...political nature of "green" tourism. It is, she argues, a fundamentally capitalistic, neoliberal concept that fails to deliver on claims that it significantly benefits development and conservation while bolstering host countries' revenues. At the heart of the debate is ecotourism's place at the "blue-green" end of the environmentalist spectrum, where even nature has an intrinsic economic value. "Ecotourism," says Duffy, becomes a "buzzword that assists businesses in marketing their products." In the global tourism industry, "cultures and societies become commodities to be consumed by an external audience." Ecotourists create "a huge economic, environmental and social impact merely...
Times and priorities change. It's disconcerting to the environmentalist to hear the author of This Land Is Your Land sounding like a booster from Houston with a pump jack for a metronome. But the Depression was then. This is now. Political correctness is addicted to committing the sin of anachronism--imposing the current sense of racial and environmental decorum upon earlier times. Consider Thomas Jefferson's descent from Enlightenment philosopher and naturalist to slave master and debaucher of Sally Hemings--a fair enough revisionist correction, if kept in disciplined perspective. Of course, one age's evil is another...
...work is about much more than pretty pictures. The Parisbased photographer has assigned himself "the toughest project" - the open-ended task of recording the earth's environment as a benchmark for the future and accompanying his photos with words and statistics that place his images in a decidedly environmentalist context. "My job is to do a very strong picture that will give an emotional response," he says. "And the text is very, very important. My picture is nothing without it. The message is important." The message is sustainable development, and respecting people and nature alike by changing production and consumption...
DIED. JOSE LUTZENBERGER, 75, outspoken Brazilian environmentalist; after a heart attack; in Porto Alegre. Once a salesman for a German chemical company, Lutzenberger changed jobs after visiting an apple orchard that had been sprayed with his company's chemicals. As Brazil's Secretary of the Environment, Lutzenberger pushed for punitive measures for industrial polluters and helped create an oasis in the Amazon for the Yanomami Indians...