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...public pressure. In September an alliance of environmental groups, bankers and investment-fund managers, known as the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, unveiled a set of guidelines for corporate conduct called the Valdez Principles (a name taken from the Exxon Valdez, the tanker responsible for the Alaskan oil spill). Firms that agree to the guidelines must pledge, among other things, to conserve energy, reduce waste and market environmentally safe products...
...waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound. The images of dead birds and sea otters and miles of tar-smeared beaches graphically illustrated mankind's capacity to foul its environment. Coming in the wake of 1988, with its devastating droughts, mega-forest fires and record high temperatures, the Valdez spill convinced all but the most skeptical observers that humanity was courting ecological disaster...
...Valdez spill was only a trivial occurrence compared with the far- reaching, perhaps irreversible processes that were unfolding around the world. The earth's population, now 5.2 billion, rose in 1989 an estimated 87.5 million, maintaining a growth rate that could double the number of human beings by the year 2025. Deforestation and burning of fossil fuels spewed at least 19 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, aggravating the global warming process that could cause the average worldwide temperature to rise as much as 4.5 degrees C (8 degrees F) within the next 60 years. Another 11.3 million...
...endangered earth as Planet of the Year. "This has been a busy year," says sciences editor Charles Alexander. "We ran a story on the environment about every other week, including reports on logging in the Northwest and Japan's environmental practices, and covers on the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the rain forests in the Amazon." Our guests at both conferences at least agreed on one thing: next year promises to be as hectic as this year on the international and environmental fronts...
Vellucci attributed the success of thepro-tenant candidates to 1-2-3, which he saidattracted large numbers of people to the polls. Hesaid it was inevitable that the 1-2-3 resultswould spill over into other races...