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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...
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
...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...
Your cover story "The Rape of Siberia" is a disappointment. You seem to have compassion for the soil but not for the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Estonians, Latvians, Ukrainians and members of other nations who perished in Siberia during Soviet rule. AINA O. NUCHO Baltimore, Maryland...
...time our Republicans in Congress get through, Alaska and the rest of the U.S. will look the same as Borneo and Siberia. Then when bottom-line greed is finished, there will be enough unemployed, motivated citizens to homestead all those square miles and spend their lives pulling up stumps. EUGENE W. FOOTE Ocean Grove, New Jersey...