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Faced with the most alarming report yet on the state of the earth's ozone layer, President Bush declared last week that the U.S. will halt production of ozone-destroying chemicals by the end of 1995. That's four years sooner than an international treaty dictates, but not as fast as environmentalists would like. "It's a modest improvement but by no means aggressive," says Liz Cook of Friends of the Earth in Washington...
...television to urge fellow Danes not to panic -- but to use hats and sunscreen. German Environment Minister Klaus Topfer called on & other countries to match Germany's pledge to stop CFC production by 1995. Greenpeace activists in Britain met with Prime Minister John Major and implored him to halt the manufacture of all CFCs immediately...
World leaders should remember ozone when they think about other threats to the planet. If they always wait until there is indisputable evidence that serious damage is occurring, it may be much too late to halt the damage. Consider the widespread scientific predictions of global warming from the greenhouse effect. No one knows for sure that anything terrible will happen. ! But humanity has boosted the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by at least 25%. It is reckless to subject nature to such giant experiments when the outcome is unknown and the possible consequences are too frightening to contemplate...
Human-rights activists are waging a loud campaign to halt the repatriations, backed by groups ranging from the N.A.A.C.P. and AFL-CIO to the American Jewish Committee and the U.S. Catholic Conference. But it is uncertain how long Americans will listen. "The White House is banking on the fact that people won't care," says a disillusioned Republican congressional staffer. "Politics, not principle, is the overriding consideration...
Smaller papers have also been struggling to halt invasion of privacy. At the Wichita Eagle, editor Merritt decided in 1990 to change coverage to compel gubernatorial candidates to speak to the issues and "get off the crap sound- bite kind of campaigns." The paper polled a thousand readers and nonreaders before and after the campaign and concluded that readers had greatly enhanced understanding of issues while nonreaders did not. Says Merritt: "We are convinced that the appetite is out there for the kind of journalism all of us would like to do on campaigns. If a candidate is running around...