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Americans are littering and plundering our natural treasures without a second thought. From missing petroglyphs, chiseled out of rocks, to cigarette butts littering the trails and initials carved in trees half a millennium old, I saw mankind's fingerprints everywhere on a recent trip back home. Our environment is being irreparably damaged. The decision on whether or not to open up a pristine natural area to loggers, drillers or all-terrain-vehicle drivers should be a no-brainer. MARK K. HINSHAW III Plano, Texas
...swamps of Sumatra. Now he was starting to achieve startling new insights into some of our most fundamental questions: What made us men and not monkeys? When precisely did that divergence occur? And, even more intriguing, what lit the spark of learning and shared knowledge that eventually became mankind's bonfire of culture and science...
This special is nominally about the ecosphere; it's really, if obliquely, about money. Moyers travels the globe, linking dwindling Asian steppes and Brazilian reefs to the health of mankind. It's unabashed advocacy journalism but comprehensive; the recurring theme is the economic interests of multinationals and native laborers, of developing nations and Chilean-sea-bass-eating viewers. Moyers only hints at overall solutions (and their costs), focusing on individual conservation successes, but the ecological truism that we're all connected rarely gets such a broad, God's-eye treatment...
...suspect that most of us who actually fought in Vietnam have confessions lingering in some dark corner of our minds but have come to terms with the memories. Civilian casualties are an inevitable consequence of any war, and that will never change. Until mankind realizes the futility of war, civilian casualties, however regrettable, will remain an acceptable fact of life. BARRY W. LUNDGREN Woodstock...
...patients who experience endless suffering and who have no hope of improvement. Every human being must have the basic right to live with health and happiness and to choose to die if suffering terribly from an incurable ailment. All countries must legalize such a right for the benefit of mankind. ANANTHAPADMANABA KRISHNAMURTHY Dublin, Ohio...