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What's going on in Siberia is the same thing that's occurring in the rain forests of South America and the fragile coral reefs of the Caribbean. These areas have all fallen prey to greed. If we continue exploiting the earth, we will bring about our own demise. NAGA YALLA Edgewater, New Jersey aol: NYalla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1995 | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...Your Siberia cover headline questions, THE RAPE OF SIBERIA...CAN IT BE SAVED BY CAPITALISM? That's like asking Can Alaska be saved by oil spills? Opening a part of Siberia that has not already been wounded by nuclear and other environmental horrors under communism to capitalist ventures in oil, forestry and so on will only make a bad situation worse. I suggest that the only kind of capitalism that should be allowed in Siberia is operations to clean up those areas damaged by hazardous dumping, and maybe a squadron of wrecking balls for Norilsk. Vice President Gore should turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1995 | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Thank you for your chilling depiction of environmental disaster in Siberia. As a student in Magadan, Siberia, I witnessed leaky oil refineries, toxic-waste dumps at the headwaters of rivers, scrapyards of twisted metal and swaths of clear-cut land: grim testimony to the failure of the Soviet system to care for Siberia's fragile ecosystem. Industrial society seems to lead inexorably to devastation of the earth's northern lands. On America's own arctic frontier, the U.S. Congress stands poised to allow oil exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, something a soon-to-be-released Interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1995 | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Where is the proof that communism destroyed the forests of Siberia, rather than greed, which is the real suspect? If destruction was caused by greed, wouldn't that mean capitalism? You should have mentioned how the U.S. is destroying its own forests and that U.S.-based companies are rushing into the former Soviet Union to exploit its natural resources. TRACY BRIEN San Francisco Via E-mail

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1995 | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...which holds that we should allocate the greatest number of goods to the largest number of people. Capitalism and socialism merely have different theories on how best to achieve that goal, but they never question the goal. The only alternative to the ideology of technology that has given us Siberia and Bhopal, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island is ecology. JORDI ROS Beverly Hills, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1995 | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

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