Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason is not so much the sheer numbers, though 40,000 babies die of starvation each day in Third World countries, but the reckless way in which humanity has treated its planetary host. Like the evil genies that flew from Pandora's box, technological advances have provided the means of upsetting nature's equilibrium, that intricate set of biological, physical and chemical interactions that make up the web of life. Starting at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, smokestacks have disgorged noxious gases into the atmosphere, factories have dumped toxic wastes into rivers and streams, automobiles have guzzled irreplaceable fossil...
...polyethylene and rag rope and drove more than 350 miles up and down New York's Long Island in search of the perfect combination of light, air and sea for a photograph. The result -- Wrapped Globe 1988 -- is a fitting symbol of earth's vulnerability to man's reckless ways...
...Jackal and almost everything written by Ian Fleming. The boy's doomed mother Maria is not merely an eyeful, she has a "passion for beautiful things and more than enough money to indulge it . . . Coco Chanel suits, tea roses, the best restaurants, jazz, and driving her Bugatti at a reckless speed...
...They're calling [Sudduth and Graham] in not necessarily for their expertise, I think, but to establish whether Morris had the intent to infect federal computers, or was he reckless enough [to allow it and was he expert enough," said George-town law student and technology writer Robin A. Meltzer...
...absolutely ashamed of myself now. Because once upon a time, I would do anything in the name of fun, regardless of how reckless or unscrupulous the activity might have been. But of all the stupid and morally questionable things I have done in the name of a good time--and there have been a few--I cannot forgive myself for hanging out at final clubs...