Word: environmentalists
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Such accomplishments would be fulfillment enough for most humans. But they attest to only a few of MacCready's many skills. He has piloted conventional aircraft as well as sailplanes and hang gliders, is an ardent environmentalist and a successful entrepreneur, the founder and president of AeroVironment Inc., a small, innovative firm that specializes in monitoring and cleansing the environment, alternative energy and energy-efficient vehicles. He also frequently dons the hat of an educator, lecturing at schools, universities and business meetings, urging the formal teaching of the kinds of "thinking skills" he feels are necessary to meet growing environmental...
Campaigned as an environmentalist, but his White House has no recycling program, earning it a spot on the Sierra Club's "Slimy Seven" list of agencies that are making no effort to comply with local...
...things that has spurned this on," says Robert M. Gogan, head of the student environmentalist group at the School of Education, "is the seeming thaw of the Cold War. People ask `so what's left as the big issue?" Many of them, Gogan adds, have concluded that it is saving the planet from ecological collapse...
Jose Lutzenberger, an ecologically oriented agronomist, is Brazil's most unflinching environmentalist. Lutzenberger aroused the anger of the administration of former President Jose Sarney by daring to declare publicly that the rest of the world had a legitimate interest in the fate of the Amazon rain forest. "If you set your homes on fire, it will threaten the homes of your neighbors," Lutzenberger noted with simple eloquence. Because of his reputation for outspokenness, the international environmental community was dumbfounded in March, when newly inaugurated President Fernando Collor de Mello named Lutzenberger Secretary of the Environment...
Earth Day fits into a troubling American pattern of responding to crises with rhetoric and theater. So far, it has been easy to be an environmentalist: one simply has to claim to be one. Just as middle-class voters routinely condemn "welfare" while opposing cuts in the social programs that constitute such spending, a good portion of the voters who claim they would pay for environmental improvements balk when the bill is presented. If consumers truly insisted on cleaner air in their individual buying and voting decisions, Detroit and Japan would vie to deliver less polluting cars, and it would...