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...seas make up 95% of the planet's biosphere--the realm where all living things exist--and we are stripping and poisoning it, depriving it of its ability to sustain life. Jacques-Yves Cousteau once predicted that unless we--not the editorial or royal we but the universal we--changed our ways and stopped treating the oceans as an infinite resource and a bottomless dump, there would someday come a moment of no recovery. Overwhelmed at last, the resilient seas would no longer be able to cleanse or restock themselves. From that moment on, the oceans--and with them nearly...
...course, when wilderness is so intensely managed, it ceases to be wild. It becomes a toothless simulacrum. It becomes a park. On an increasingly crowded planet there is probably no alternative. It is simply an unhappy fact of life on the cusp of the 21st century...
...year 2025 many of us will no longer tolerate the scourges of 20th century suburban life: the marathon commutes, the maddening traffic jams, the pollution spewing from tailpipes and chimneys. We'll demand neighborhoods where the air is pristine and places to work, shop and play are close at hand...
WASTE Sewage will be piped into enclosed marshes [12], where selected plants, fish, snails and microbes will purify the wastewater before it enters streams and reservoirs. No longer will inadequate treatment of wastewater promote algae blooms that threaten other aquatic life...
...epidemic continues to rage, however, in South America, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. By the year 2025, AIDS will be by far the major killer of young Africans, decreasing life expectancy to as low as 40 years in some countries and singlehandedly erasing the public health gains of the past five decades...