Word: harmfulness
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...while you're at it, take a look at Andrew Goldstein's provocative indictment of the green movement. Although environmentalists are doing good works, the tactics of certain radical groups not only aren't achieving results but, Goldstein argues, are probably causing more harm than good...
...damage being done is more than aesthetic. Many vanishing species provide humans with both food and medicine. What's more, once you start tearing out swaths of ecosystem, you upset the existing balance in ways that harm even areas you didn't intend to touch. Environmentalists have said this for decades, and now that many of them have tempered ecological absolutism with developmental realism, more people are listening...
...conflicts between the short-term interests of those in power and the long-term interests of everybody: chiefs were becoming rich from processes that ultimately undermined society. That too is an acute issue today, as wealthy Americans do things that enrich themselves in the short run and harm everyone in the long run. As the Anasazi chiefs found, they could get away with those policies for a while, but ultimately they bought themselves the privilege of being merely the last to starve...
...Indian Himalayas. India's Supreme Court demanded to know why someone thought it was clever to use scenic boulders as billboards. Company representatives said they knew nothing of the graffiti, blaming local franchisees instead. Now the companies are trying to decide how to remove the paint without doing further harm to the delicate mosses that cling to the rocks. We hear colas will strip paint off just about anything...
...strategy is to avoid too much negatively expressed emotion. Tough love, for example, is a good idea in principle, but in some situations it can do more harm than good, especially if it makes kids who can't control their behavior feel worse about themselves. When family arguments do break out, they need to be conducted in a controlled way. Psychology professor David Miklowitz of the University of Colorado encourages families to avoid what he calls the "three volley," a provocation followed by a rejoinder, then a rebuttal. Hold the volleys to just one or two, and you'll avoid...