Word: environmentalists
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...loosest sense of the word, and its members are disparate. A philosophical base of sorts has been laid by Jack Herer's book The Emperor Wears No Clothes, an investigative history of marijuana and its uses. Groups like the Cannabis Action Network have brought youth and an environmentalist ethic into the trend. And the new film The Money Tree, about a pot grower, gives hempsters a movie to call their...
...paradoxically, environmentalist concerns too often ignore the reality that beleaguered economics are simply unable to set in place the necessary apparatus for strict enforcement procedures. Mexicans are not necessarily less concerned about the environment than their northern counterparts, just hampered by economic constraints...
NAFTA and its promise of economic benefits will go a long way in enabling the implementation of stricter scrutiny and more stringent environmental laws. The apocalyptic nightmare of a devastated landscape and the continent-wide lowering of environmental standards presented by the more radical environmentalist factions may make for good theater, but that vision is patently false and unnecessarily alarmist...
Wirth, who is President Clinton's nominee for undersecretary of state for global affairs, is an environmentalist with a masters degree in education from Harvard and a doctorate in education from Stanford...
Matthiessen was an environmentalist before the term was fashionable -- just as he was a "searcher" before it became a '60s job description, and an apostle of "male wildness" before Robert Bly got out his drums. Yet he is too tough-minded to dwindle into New Age pieties, and even though he does not hesitate to call the Gulf War "one of the great disgraces in our history," he equally stays clear of reflex anti-Establishmentism: at times, he says, he has been obliged to remind more militant friends that police self-discipline makes this "a very easy country...