Word: environmentalists
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...Louis chose to praise the rise of the Green Party in West Germany. If one is anti-NATO, anti-American, somewhat pro-Soviet, and a neutralist who hearkens back to the disorder of Weimar, then I suppose one could support the Greens. They are a loosely organized agglomeration of environmentalist and so-called peace parties who envision a firmly neutralist Europe (along the lines of Finland perhaps?), but their main accomplishment, should they get the 5 percent of the vote needed to become represented in parliament, would be to make West Germany ungovernable, as they have rejected the possibility...
Even more bizarre was Watt's assertion in a recent Business Week interview that the American environmentalist movement is a totalitarian front. In Watt's view, environmentalists only pretend to care about fish, fowl, and forests. Their more sinister real purpose is to bring "central planning" to the American economy and to "subordinate the dignity of man." It's night-malish vision to be sure--just imagine Woodsy the Owl in jackboots with a club--but a little improbable...
...maverick tendencies and keen political insight, McCall was best known as a founder of the environmentalist movement. Even in his dying months, he campaigned vociferously for legislation to save the environment, leading a battle against a November ballot measure that would have ended the land use planning policies he created in Oregon...
Some gaps have resulted from environmentalist victories. Highway planners in Memphis always assumed they would get permission to run Interstate 40 through the 342-acre
Arizona Congressman Morris Udall, aleading environmentalist, called it "a delicate fabric of agreements." An Atomic Industrial Forum spokesman acclaimed it "a masterpiece of compromise." Sierra Club Lobbyist Brooks Yeager noted, perhaps more accurately, "There's an awful lot of politics in this bill...