Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late 19th century gave rise to two new kinds of photographer: social reformers, who showed the faces of the poor, and globe-trotting photojournalists, who hunted news for the great tabloid empires...
...differs from all previous forms of pollution in that it is a global problem, he says. If we change the atmosphere, we change it everywhere. We are toying with a power nothing short of divine; we are extending the influence of human technology and human society over the entire globe...
This argument sounds innocent enough at first, but as McKibben realizes, it has problems. Part of what McKibben loves in nature is his house and his garden in the Adirondacks. He acknowledges that in the interests of the entire globe he might have to give up such space and energy-wasting luxuries...
...missionary spirit has always hovered over the U.S.'s relations with far- off, backward lands. In the mid-19th century, New England ministers went abroad to save souls. A century later, foreign aid technocrats preached the virtues of hydroelectric dams and other megaprojects. Now a new generation of globe-trotting officials is spreading the gospel of environmentalism...
That kind of shortsightedness, writ large, afflicts the entire globe. This year the U.N. Statistical Commission will undertake a periodic 20-year review of the way it monitors the world economy. The World Resources Institute, a Washington-based think tank, is urging the U.S. to press the commission to adopt a new system to take account of activities that harm the environment and thus to encourage policies that will save it. The opportunity will not arise again until the year 2010. By then, according to nature's own accounting, mankind may be environmentally bankrupt...