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...Yanomami are the celebrities of the rain forest. No tribe on the planet is more lauded, defamed, protected, exploited and fought over. Best sellers chronicle their warlike savagery. Missionaries convert them. Gold miners massacre them. And TV movies zoom in on their loincloths and painted faces, their shaman magic and hallucinogenic habits...
Unlike Let's Go, Lonely Planet Publications urges female writers to "find companions to travel with" if they feel uncomfortable, according to Cindy Cohen, publicity manager of the guide...
Global warming is only one among many problems suffered by our planet. Unless we find a way to halt the out-of-control overpopulation of the earth, we are doomed. We are rich and wasteful, yes, but there are far too many of us, and the situation is getting worse each day. DOMINIQUE HUDELOT Vankleek Hill...
...culture-killing ascent of money as the planetary measure of worth. The Copernican change in the roles of men and women, because of the pill, the sexual revolution, the women's liberation movement and women's ascent toward power in every field? The immense environmental changes in the planet - population growth, the cancellation of global distances, the extinction of remoteness, the vanishing of species...
...remain, for the most part, economic slaves. Pretty basic. And we become slaves to what the "market" tells us we should be buying. And the question I always ask young people when I speak at colleges, community centers, prisons, or wherever: What other people on the planet are allowed (and encouraged from what I have seen through my many years in and around the music industry) to call themselves the equivalent of "niggas" and "bitches" on CD and that is distributed for mass consumption...