Word: fishermen
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Brundtland got into her fix because she needed the political support of fishermen in northern communities. Faced with declining catches, the fishermen look hungrily at Minke whales. To keep this group in her fragile coalition, Brundtland has blithely forgotten many of her strongly held convictions...
...encourages efficiency and the use of cleaner fuels. But the whaling issue has real significance. By undermining the International Whaling Commission, Norway's unilateral action will open the door to cheating by other nations, imperiling anew some whale species. Many Norwegians recognize this, but it is the politically potent fishermen who are driving policy...
This is the nub of it. Just as Norway has its politically potent fishermen, the U.S. has politically potent loggers, not to mention developers, ranchers, auto manufacturers and an endless assortment of highly focused interests that can make life uncomfortable for environmentally minded politicians, even when they have broad support in the community. This leads to what might be called the first law of environmental decline: the long-term health of an ecosystem recedes in importance when people are fighting over access to specific resources for their short-term economic interests. This is hardly surprising in a country that cannot...
There is no evidence that main-force Vietnamese units are still deployed in the country, but hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, perhaps more than a million, are now there as traders, artisans, fishermen. Many of them are demobilized soldiers, suspected by some Cambodians of being part of a Hanoi fifth column. Vietnamese advisers are still believed to hold key positions in some ministries...
...that there has been virtually no progress in economic rehabilitation. Donors pledged $880 million for Cambodia at a conference in Tokyo in June, but almost none of the money has arrived. If the economy functions at all, it is because Cambodia is still a country of subsistence farmers and fishermen...