Word: preservationism
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7. "It is, therefore, most necessary that a movement, for pure reasons of self-preservation, should, once it has begun to achieve success, immediately block enrollments and henceforth increase its organization only with extreme caution and after the most thorough scrutiny."
Although self-preservation motivates these backyard ecologists, they often take their cause well beyond the backyard, in many cases joining the loose environmental coalitions that have become major lobbying forces in state capitals. When her second son was born with a breathing disorder, Marylee Orr roused her Baton Rouge neighborhood...
The words caused consternation in Warsaw, particularly within the Solidarity government Walesa helped create. "He seems prepared to put everything we have achieved this year at risk to further his personal ambitions," said a Cabinet member. Echoed Dariusz Fikus, editor in chief of the government daily Rzeczpospolita: "Preservation of the...
Loggers argue that court injunctions have already deprived them of much of their prime lumber -- and their livelihood. Protecting the owl, they warn, would silence the mills once and for all, and drive at least 9,000 jobs into extinction. Environmentalists believe that may be a price worth paying for...
Lettice Douffet is a sometime actress reduced to working as a rather fanciful tour guide in an ugly and, truth to tell (which she rarely does), unimportant English mansion called Fustian House. Faced with the unpleasant fact that hardly anything consequential or colorful ever happened there, she makes things up...