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...other hand, these things come and go, and you can never be sure they won't return. In Armenia, they had a power station of the same design as Chernobyl. And in the years after the explosion, as the Soviet Union reached its lowest ebb and collapsed, the environmentalist movement managed to get that reactor shut down. It was a particularly dangerous one, because in those glorious Soviet times they managed to build a nuclear power plant directly over a geological fault. But eventually, after their bruising war with Azerbaijan and suffering many years of power shortages, the Armenians simply...
...George W. Bush may be a global-warming flat-earther, but Al Gore isn't quite the planet's knight in shining armor. He may be a deeply concerned environmentalist, but that doesn't mean he's about to do anything as politically risky as telling Americans the truth about global warming and what they'll have to do if they want to leave behind a comfortable planet for their grandchildren's grandchildren. Instead, the Clinton administration has prattled on sunnily about business-driven solutions in which everybody gets to maintain their current lifestyles, while Detroit miraculously comes up with...
...popularity contest had won the popularity contest. He collected more votes than Bill Clinton ever did, more votes than any other Democrat in history. But like his father before him, he couldn't hold on to his home state, and that could cost him the race. The most fervent environmentalist in national politics was foiled by the Green Party; the guy who as a young Congressman made his name investigating tainted baby formula and influence peddling by the contact-lens industry lost because of a few thousand votes for a mischievous consumer advocate. Gore is the one who campaigned...
...popularity contest won the popularity contest. He collected more votes than Bill Clinton ever did, more votes than any other Democrat in history. But like his father before him, he couldn't hold on to his home state, and that could cost him the race. The most fervent environmentalist in national politics was foiled by the Green Party; the guy who as a young Congressman made his name investigating tainted baby formula and influence peddling by the contact-lens industry lost because of a few thousand votes for a mischievous consumer advocate. Gore is the one who campaigned as though...
Money talks--a lot louder than any environmentalist can. This was evident in your article about paving a 435-mile road through the Amazon rain forest [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 16]. Perhaps it is difficult for Brazil to look past the short-term economic gains of paving highway BR-163. But who are we Americans to criticize Brazil? Isn't opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development a key issue in the presidential campaign? We might destroy one of the few natural habitats that we have left. We Americans can't point a finger at Brazil if we exploit...