Word: heedlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newer focus addresses environmental concerns and the need for sustainable development, a direct contrast with the heedless rush to unbridled modernization...
...potential for disaster is only beginning to be appreciated. For years residents and businesses around Bowling Green, Kentucky, pumped or buried solvents and wastes in the ground, heedless of the fact that the city of 40,000 sits on karst. In effect, they turned the underlying caves into a toxic sewer. Twice during the 1980s, benzene and other chemicals rose up from the caves into homes and elementary schools, endangering people's lives...
...should one say lust? Anyway, what happens to them is careless and heedless. The actors bring a terrifying, clarifying force to their representation of an unsentimental sexual education, more powerful than any the movies have lately given us. There is something of Adam and Eve in their innocence. Except that as flashbacks within the flashback unfold, we realize that this Adam is already tainted by something like original sin, visited on him by his family's history (and symbolized by the hulking, tragic presence of his mentally deficient older brother), and that this Eve's temptation is, if anything, more...
...cars to a family, air conditioning in private homes and appliances galore, participating fully in a consumer economy that already makes heavy demands on the world's environment even when it is confined to a mere fraction of the world's population. It is obvious that the wasteful, heedless life now enjoyed by the West cannot be made available to everyone without stretching the energy resources of the earth, as well as its adaptive capacity, beyond the breaking point...
...deeper tremors emanate from the kind of change that occurs only once every few decades. America is going through a historic transition from the heedless borrow-and-spend society of the 1980s to one that stresses savings and investment. In the short run, this helped trigger the cyclical recession, which is likely to run its course in the next few months. But when it's over, America will not simply go back to business as usual...