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...thinking when environmental reform threatens either jobs or life-styles. People thus need to undergo a fundamental shift in perspective, acknowledging their dependence on a healthy biosphere. Seeing earth as a whole erases the illusion that humanity is separate from the natural order. For that reason alone, The Home Planet (Addison-Wesley; $19.95), an elegant compilation of photos taken during American and Soviet space missions, might be the first text in a syllabus for environmental re-education. In quotes accompanying the pictures, cosmonauts and astronauts from more than a dozen nations struggle to express the transcendental experience of seeing...
...must dispel such potentially disastrous notions. The most challenging task in the fight to save the planet is cultivating a willingness to sacrifice for improvements. This cannot be done if we preach the existence of easy environmentalism...
...relative newcomer on earth, man knows little about the species with whom he shares the landscape. Fewer than 1.4 million of earth's tens of millions of species have been named, much less examined for their part in making the planet more hospitable. How then do we measure each loss or know when we have severed a vital link with nature? Observes noted paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould: "It would be a very bleak world with cockroaches and dogs and not much else." The final blessing of the Endangered Species Act is that it preserves the elements that stir...
When TIME chose Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year for 1988, the magazine's inquiry into the global threat of environmental disaster was also intended to be, in the words of our editors, an "agenda for urgent action." That mission has now been joined by TIME's publishing side. In April, I challenged the country's advertising agencies to create Earth-saving messages, and offered to provide a national showcase for the winners. More than 325 firms submitted entries, and a 13-member panel of art directors and copywriters picked the best 10. The winners were chosen from eight...
...started through the mixture of Eisenhower family values and the ethic of that prairie society. Jackson, now one of the nation's most renowned and innovative agriculture researchers, founded the Land Institute in Salina, Kans., in search of perennial prairie grain crops that will halt the wasting of the planet...