Word: environmentalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earth's oxygen, is surface matter. It absorbs dirt and acts as a sort of pollution filter. Thus all you need to knock out is the surface phytoplankton, and the entire marine life cycle is fatally disrupted." That disruption is accelerating logarithmically. At one Baltic measuring station, Environmentalist Barry Commoner points out, the oxygen content of water samples was 2.5 cc. per liter in 1900. The figure gently declined to 2.0 cc. by 1940, but in only 30 years since then it has plummeted...
...were in reality prisons-clinical cubicles where hundreds of other species spent their lives pacing behind bars. Zoos might also have been predators of a sort, since they sought rare animals and thus often contributed to the depletion of some species. Now this image is changing. Thanks to the environmentalist concern over vanishing wildlife, many zoos have become latter-day Noah's arks, where rare wild animals are protected and bred against the day they may vanish from their native lands...
...still relatively abundant and cheap. Many Midlanders jumped to the obvious conclusion that if the nukes were not quickly completed and placed in operation, Dow might shut down more of its Midland-based operations. Fearing for their jobs, they bought a full page ad in a local newspaper attacking environmentalist critics, who have questioned several aspects of the nuke. The ad's headline: "Will a Few People Destroy Our Area...
...harbor bottom with sludge. Complicating matters is the fact that there may be as much undiscovered oil lying off Long Island, where 42 oil companies are now involved in exploration, as there is on Alaska's North Slope. If oil is found and exploited, warns the environmentalist Committee for Resource Management, "Long Island could have a solid string of ghost beaches...
...nation's environmentalist lobby, refreshed by its success, had turned to other concerns. So had the Boeing Company. After the Senate abruptly voted down further funds for development of the supersonic transport in March, Boeing laid off more than 5,000 workers, dispersed its crack team of SST designers and engineers, and closed down the Seattle factory where for four years it had been creating a supersonic prototype...