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While Clinton's plan is a patchwork of political compromises, it is part of a real shift in federal policy that shows a new respect for nature. Throughout most of U.S. history, government actions have encouraged human exploitation of natural resources: logging, mining, drilling, grazing, damming rivers. That philosophy reached...
When Clinton and his environmentalist sidekick, Al Gore, took office, they were already well aware that America's ecology was in crisis. From the spotted owls and salmon in the Northwest to woodpeckers and salamanders in the Southeast, many species were on the brink of extinction, and the implications were...
Ultimately, the most dramatic policy shift could be the changing view of dams, long the symbol of man's dominion over nature. They are now seen by some as a testament to man's hubris -- redirecting rivers, flooding dry lands and evicting wildlife. For years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
It was not until the middle of this century that the nature of that ecosystem was understood. The Everglades, it turns out, is not a swamp at all but a shallow, sheetlike river, about 50 miles wide, flowing almost imperceptibly from Okeechobee to the sea. It is a leisurely process...
Tundi Agardy of the World Wildlife Fund notes that since some whales live as long as humans do, it can take decades for scientists to determine whether whaling is harming a species. Moreover, no one yet knows how hunting interacts with other pressures that affect whale populations, including pollution and...