Word: environmentalists
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Loving the Earth, on the other hand, is a bomber, simplistic to the point of being moronic. This book attempts to present information about the environment in a comprehensible and appealing manner. Unfortunately, it does so without telling a story. The result is a handbook for the budding environmentalist which is both uninteresting and condescending...
...illustrations are the only commendable aspect of the book. Although the mixture of photographs and watercolors is pleasing, this is not sufficient to attract audiences of all ages. Nor is Loving the Earth a book which a serious environmentalist would buy for his children because of the simplicity of the scientific and geological explainations...
This could be the winter of discontent for environmentalists. As the threat of war rumbles in the Middle East and the U.S. economy tumbles into recession, preserving the planet's air, land and water is in danger of losing its place among the most pressing issues of the day. It's not that last April's Earth Day has been forgotten already: more and more people are recycling household waste, toting reusable shopping bags to stores and planting trees in their backyards. And after more than a decade of debate, Congress finally overhauled the Clean Air Act this fall...
...White House will offer an environmental agenda in the near future. Exhausted by debate over the Clean Air Act and distracted by the twin threats of recession and war, Congress has no major environmental initiatives pending. The Bush Administration, all but abandoning the President's promise to be an "environmentalist" in the Oval Office, has not followed up on its decision to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet-level status, nor has it come through with an adequate plan to protect the threatened spotted owl. Regarding global issues, the Administration temporizes on threats to the atmosphere and lags...
Attempts by several states to fill the policy vacuum floundered this year, and the tactics of the environmental lobby were at least partly responsible. The contest over California's "Big Green," Proposition 128, for instance, was marked by overstatement on both sides of the issue. Prominent environmentalists, including EPA Administrator William Reilly, were troubled by the sweep of some of Big Green's provisions, like the pesticide curbs that would have banned any chemical found to cause cancer in any rat. Given the legitimate debate over many of the provisions in the proposition's 16,000 words, it was entirely...