Word: environmentals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director of Facilities Maintenance Thomas E. Vautin, who originally conceived the plan to preserve the Yard environment, confirmed that the two unions are negotiating for the positions.
Yet this increased attention to the environment as a foreign policy and national security issue, however welcome, is only a gesture in the direction of what will be necessary to avert insoluble problems in the future. "The ! most formidable obstacles to action," says Benedick, are "the entrenched economic and political...
What all this requires is self-discipline on the part of the world's haves and increased assistance to the have-nots. Today a billion people live in a degree of squalor that forces them to deplete the environment without regard to its future. Similarly, their governments often are too...
...debt relief, the advanced nations of the North must make available to the desperate nations of the South efficient new technologies that spare the environment while encouraging economic growth. Fortunately, help for the South should not mean only sacrifice in the North. The need for energy-efficient and environmentally useful technologies could create an enormous untapped market -- one that several of the world's economic powers have already begun to explore. At the same time, there are ways for the South to clean up its own act. Some developing nations run up more than a third of their debt buying...
Acid rain, overpopulation and global warming are inspiring international cooperation, but they are provoking "ecoconflicts" as well. -- How the U.S. can exercise leadership in the Third World. See Environment.