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...should accommodate only when his fate and that of nature are inextricably bound up.The most urgent accommodation must be made when the very integrity of man's habitat -- e.g., atmospheric ozone -- is threatened. When the threat to man is of a lesser order (say, the pollutants from coal- and oil-fired generators that cause death from disease but not fatal damage to the ecosystem), a more modulated accommodation that balances economic against health concerns is in order. But in either case the principle is the same: protect the environment -- because it is man's environment...
...plants and coral reefs along the coast of Kuwait and northern Saudi Arabia, favorable winds have so far kept it well north of the rich marine ecosystems in the bay of Bahrain. These marshy flats are the breeding grounds of large numbers of fish and shrimp and the favorite habitat of the rare dugong, the cousin of the American manatee that was already facing extinction before the war began...
Where to volunteer? There's work in hospitals and libraries and schools; delivering meals to the homebound, assisting the handicapped or cheering the elderly. Want to join Jimmy Carter in building housing for the homeless? Call 800-HABITAT. There's no single national clearinghouse to match volunteers with jobs, but the National Volunteer Center (703-276-0542) can steer you to whichever of its 380 local affiliates is nearest. One area that might be of particular interest to a TIME reader: teaching kids or adults to read. If so, call the Literacy Hotline (800-228-8813) for the number...
...principles and modern economic pressures. One Alaskan tribe in dire need of funds is reluctantly trying to decide whether to sign away logging rights around Prince William Sound, permit oil drilling in a delicate wildlife area or allow an airfield to be built in the midst of a vast habitat for Kodiak bears. Other tribes have allowed waste-management companies to use reservation land for dumps and disposal sites, then suffered from the contamination of their land and water as a result. Across the vast Arizona tracts of the Navajo Nation, high-voltage wires run like silver threads...
...Wolf Action Group (WAG), a New Mexico-basedpartisan group, has recently taken the lead ineliminating such obstacles. The group filed suitagainst the Department of the Interior, chargingthem with delaying efforts to return the wolves totheir natural habitat, according to Brown...