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...organism can exist without affecting its environment. Lions dine on gazelles. A growing tree will shade out sun-loving herbaceous plants. All organisms excrete wastes. So the question facing the Earth Summit and humanity in general is not whether to affect the environment or not, but in what ways...
...Earth Summit has been billed as the environmental crossroads for humanity. Indeed, many are concerned that environmental problems are so large that they soon may pass a point where anything significant can be done. Of all problems none is more irreversible than the extinction problem; every time a , species is lost unnecessarily, a 3.5 billion-year lineage comes to a halt...
...assess how much can actually be achieved at Rio. But it is clear that there will be plenty to do afterward, and it is not too soon to think about how new strategies might be most effectively pursued. Certainly we cannot depend on periodic mechanisms like the Earth Summit, which manage to be both ponderous and convulsive at the same time. There is a need for an interim continuing structure like the Security Council within the United Nations. An alternative might be a voluntary mechanism like the Group of Seven meetings, but one that includes some of the major developing...
...delegates to the Earth Summit won't have to travel far to see an urban environmental disaster in progress. Rio de Janeiro has it all: air and water pollution on a grand scale, crumbling infrastructure, raging crime and sprawling slums. Rio even has its own troubled tropical forest, the remnants of which sweep up the hillsides behind the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. Those beaches have lost much of their appeal to tourists, because the ocean waters are polluted and because beachgoers are vulnerable to the crime wave that has overtaken Rio in recent years. The pollution problem is grave...
...city hopes the summit will boost the flagging tourist industry, which has declined 60% in the past five years. "Protect the Tourist" has been adopted as a summit slogan, and the city has even created a special squad of "tourist police" to patrol the beaches. Says a spokesman for Mayor Marcello Alencar: "Rio is going to be one of the most secure cities in the world during the Earth Summit...