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THREE WEEKS AGO, OUR ART DEPARTMENT COVER COORdinator, Linda Freeman, received a phone call from Maurice Skinazi, an international businessman and art collector. Mr. Skinazi suggested that if by any chance TIME was going to do a story on the Rio summit, we should consider using something painted by his friend, Brazilian painter Lia Mittarakis...
...special report on the summit is part of TIME's commitment to cover environmental issues, which began when we named Endangered Earth as the Planet of the Year for 1988. Says senior editor Charles Alexander, who edited the stories: "The summit itself can't save the earth, but it can put the nations of the world on the right path." Mittarakis shares that optimism and hopes that "by portraying the beauties of nature, we can remind the world about what is at stake." That is exactly our intent...
...luxury, has steadily increased its profits. Once industrialists think about it at all seriously, they almost inevitably see the financial advantages of investments in environmental technology, says Hugh Faulkner, executive director of the Business Council for Sustainable Development. The council was set up to advise the Earth Summit about industry's views on environmental issues. After a year's work, executives from such firms as Chevron, Mitsubishi, Royal Dutch/ Shell and Volkswagen agreed on a set of business principles, including the need for sustainable management of resources, the charging of environmental costs against corporate profits, and the rule that polluters...
IMAGINE AN EARTH SUMMIT AT WHICH THE DELEGATES were magically insulated from nationalist, religious and cultural pressures and then told to pick one issue that had the most impact on the quality of the environment and the cause of sustainable development. There is little doubt what this dream conference would focus on: population. By itself, controlled population growth will not solve the world's problems, but if human numbers and consumption continue to rise unabated, there is little hope for the other creatures with whom we share the earth and a high probability of catastrophe for humanity itself. After years...
Finally, he agreed to attend the environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro in mid-June, but only after the U.S. watered down the proposed global-warming convention that is to be signed there. And he approved his Interior Department's plan to override the Endangered Species Act to permit logging in ancient forests on some federal tracts that are home to the rare northern spotted owl. Bush still intends to campaign as the Environment President, one aide said, but "he understands that owls don't vote, and loggers...