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...have waged constant guerrilla warfare against any effort to make good on the President's prior commitments. Meanwhile, the President's chief of staff John Sununu has taken to questioning aspects of the greenhouse theory. There is room for debate over the exact magnitude of climate change that will result from CO2 emissions, but no respectable scientist denies that if humanity keeps pouring gases into the atmosphere, the earth will heat up. The U.S. has spent several trillion dollars over the past 40 years buying insurance against a Soviet nuclear attack. Global warming, by contrast, is not just a risk...
...appalling result of America's fixation with firearms was disclosed last week. A study by the National Center for Health Statistics found that 3,392 children ages 1 through 19 were killed in homicides, suicides and accidents with guns in 1987, accounting for 11% of deaths in that age group. No nation comes close to the U.S. in such fatalities. In 1985 not a single teenage male was the victim of gun-related homicide in England or Sweden...
...same California that has been sensitive to the risks from every kind of environmental threat? Three years ago, the state's voters approved Proposition 65, a law that mandates warning labels on any substance found to carry a 1-in-100,000 lifetime risk of causing cancer. As a result, cautionary notices now appear on gasoline pumps, in hardware and grocery stores and on the walls of Napa Valley wineries...
...Francisco may have established itself as the earthquake capital of the U.S., but seismologists have long warned that Los Angeles is the more vulnerable city. Because Los Angeles has not suffered a massive tremor in this century and has a much larger population, a major quake could result in far greater devastation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates that an 8.3 magnitude temblor (16 times as powerful as the one that hit San Francisco) on the southern San Andreas fault near Los Angeles could cause $17 billion in property damage and between 3,000 and 14,000 deaths...
...reason Soviets have little use for their own currency is the shortage of consumer goods to buy. The result is that thegoods have become the storehouse of value rather than the money, as in hyperinflationary economies. A leading Soviet economic official told a visiting American that his neighbor had a seven-year supply of detergent in his tiny apartment...