Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SPACESHIP EARTH (Worldlink). Tales of deforestation and ozone depletion set to the music of Sting, the B-52s and Ziggy Marley. This superb TV primer on the threats to planet Earth, now available on home video, is simple enough for children to understand and compelling enough to make their parents pay attention as well...
...fears are gone," he said. "The new international agenda is apt to be led by population control, conservation of resources. The challenge is going to be how do you sustain 5 billion people on this planet...
After non-military alternative are exhausted, conventional forces will be the primary deterrents. Americans must therefore be willing to lose lives in conventional battles. That, from my perspective, is a more palatable option than killing the whole planet in an all-out thermonuclear...
...students want a Burger King, they can take the five-minute subway ride to Central Square, says Gladys P. Gifford, one of the founders of the Harvard Square Defense Fund. "Let's have one place on the planet that doesn't have the same thing," says Gifford. National fast food chains would drive out traditional Square mainstays such as Elsie's Famous Sandwiches, Mr. and Mrs. Bartley Burger Cottage, Pinocchio's Pizza and Subs and the Tasty Sandwich Shop, she says...
That is how it is supposed to work. And for hundreds of thousands of years, without anyone knowing quite how or why, it has worked -- well enough to perpetuate the species, populate the planet and bring the joy and responsibility of children to countless generations of parents...