Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This planet -- once described by Lewis Thomas as "hanging there in space and obviously alive" -- is showing disturbing vital signs. The symptoms include accelerating deforestation and loss of species, and growing atmospheric pollution by greenhouse gases and the ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS). The full list is familiar. The causes are rooted in our growing numbers and the complexities of society's interaction with the natural world upon which we depend...
...negotiations leading up to the Earth Summit, individual nations have acted like ecologists on external matters and economists on their own internal affairs. This is, perhaps, to be expected. Making sacrifices for the good of the planet requires negotiating away some measure of national sovereignty, something no country does with grace...
...days dominated by banquets, receptions and photo opportunities. But it is not too late to salvage something of great value from the Earth Summit. If the leaders who go there -- and the people watching them from around the world -- can be convinced that the crisis facing the planet is serious enough to demand a new alliance between North and South, then there is hope that what did not get accomplished on the road to Rio may at least get started on the way home...
WHAT KIND OF PLANET WILL OUR CHILDREN INHERIT? WILL they have room to roam, air to breathe and food to eat? Will they ever see an eagle flying free or enjoy the solitude of a pristine mountain lake...
...participants in Rio de Janeiro beginning June 3. The central premise of this unprecedented Earth < Summit is that environmental problems can no longer be solved at the national level. Will the countries represented in Rio -- notably the U.S. -- show the courage and vision and leadership necessary to protect our planet for future generations? The answer is not certain, but there is some hope...