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...have at least 70% of their original vegetation intact, are at least 10,000 sq km in size and have a human population of no more than 5 people per sq km. These "last wild places," as the group calls them, cover 46% of the land surface of the planet. With all the resources and strategies at our disposal, much of this precious territory can still be saved...
Making personal transport less damaging to the planet means looking beyond cars as well. "If you could wave a magic wand and make every car fuel efficient, it wouldn't solve all our problems," says Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research in Manchester, N.H. "It is still very energy intensive to move a 2,000- or 3,000-pound machine." His solution: the Segway, the recently unveiled high-end scooter that goes up to 13 m.p.h., is powered by an electric motor and runs on just a nickel's worth of electricity a day. The batteries today are standard nickel...
Here's a riddle to keep you up at night: How come, at a time when the environmental movement is stronger and richer than ever, our most pressing ecological problems just get worse? It's as though the planet has hit a Humpty-Dumpty moment in which unprecedented amounts of manpower and money are unable to put the world back together again. "Why are we losing so many battles?" wonders Gus Speth, dean of Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies...
...venom at practices you don't like, than to find new ways to do business and create change. The dogma of traditional green activism--that business (and economic growth) is the enemy, that financial markets can't be trusted, that compromise means failure--has done little to save the planet. Which means it's fair to ask the question: Have some of the greens' tactics actually made things worse...
...parks and preserves has quadrupled worldwide since 1970. But despite a record flow of financial resources (donations to U.S. environmental groups alone have risen 50% in the past five years, to more than $6.4 billion in 2001, according to the American Association of Fundraising Counsel Trust for Philanthropy), the planet's most serious challenges--global warming, loss of biodiversity, marine depletion --remain as intractable as ever, making environmentalists vulnerable to charges that green groups have prospered while the earth...