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...called eco-anxiety - free-form worry triggered by concerns about the worsening fate of the planet - and if you suffer from it, you might want to give Lester Brown's new book, Plan B 3.0, a pass. Brown - the president of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental think tank - paints a comprehensive and depressing picture of the planet, with ream after ream of dire statistics. Here's just a handful: Arctic summer sea ice shrinkage increased by 9.1% a decade between 1979 and 2006, and this year an area of ice almost twice the size of Britain melted...
...expensive," says Brendan Bell, an energy analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists. "I don't realistically see it becoming cheap again." It might be scant consolation, but when you shell out extra to fill up your car or pay your heating bill, at least you're helping the planet, a little...
...very dangerous and misleading. No matter what the latest conclusion is from some of the government's analysts, the President of Iran has threatened a U.S. ally with extinction. It is a suicidal ideation to believe that he is not one of the most dangerous people on the planet. When Iran becomes a greater threat, perhaps more Americans will finally understand that his pockets may have been empty, but not his armory. Silas Mariano, OCEANSIDE, CALIF...
...honored to have been profiled by TIME in your special report on Earth Day [HEROES FOR THE PLANET, April 26]. Some readers, however, might be left with the impression that Earth Day was my idea. Former Senator Gaylord Nelson first proposed the event; he was the board's chairman, and he persuaded me to serve as national coordinator. Senator Nelson is thus the true "father" of Earth Day. I was, perhaps, its midwife. DENIS HAYES, CHAIR Earth Day Network Seattle...
...That tiger could have been surrounded by 10,000 people," says Dave Salmoni, the Animal Planet network's predator expert, who spent years training big cats; but if the animal has a mission, "it will avoid all of those people and just to go to those three people." Says Salmoni, "There's nothing more focused than a tiger who wants to kill something." The thing is, though, it's not easy to prompt such enmity: "To get a tiger to want to fight you is pretty hard," says Salmoni. "Tigers don't like to fight. They hunt to kill...