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...pharmaceutical companies is the key to the new plan. Before a drug can be approved in the U.S., its manufacturer must guide it through a gauntlet of testing, moving from basic laboratory experiments through animal research to carefully controlled experimentation on people. Under the system in use until now, FDA investigators did not begin evaluating the evidence until the human trials were almost finished. If the research methods or the results did not meet FDA requirements, pharmaceutical companies had to perform more testing, sometimes starting all over again. Now manufacturers may ask for the FDA's guidance from the very...
...edits nature books and the scholarly movie magazine Film Quarterly at the University of California Press. Part prophet and part cranky critic, he is in demand these days as a speaker at gatherings of ecologists and government planners. "People ask me, 'How could such a world come about?' I use the example of the vast change in smoking behavior in this country, which is a paradigm of the way in which social change toward Ecotopian patterns is happening and is going to happen. When you give people a choice between living and dying, on the whole more choose living...
When Callenbach began researching the book, he recalled a work he had read while a student at the University of Chicago, Science and Sanity, in which author Alfred Korzybski talked about man's capacity for "non survival" behavior. "He used the term largely in a social sense, but it seemed applicable to a wide range of things that we started doing in this century and that seemed like a good idea at the time, but now persist even when circumstances have changed and the habits have become self-defeating." Callenbach mentions things like nuclear plants and chemical fertilizers that...
...food. "Then I thought, any group of people sensible enough to get their act together in this way would clearly do a lot of other things differently. So I began to think of things like extruded- plastic houses and wood architecture. And I moved on gradually through transportation, land-use patterns and a whole panoply of related things." Plastics? Made from plants and thus biodegradable. Aluminum and nonferrous metals? Ban them. Garbage? Recycle everything. Electric power? Build solar and thermal-sea power plants...
Admittedly, Ecotopian man still has remnants of competitiveness left -- controlled by war games in which teams go at each other with spears. As other examples of liberated thinking, drug use and prostitution are decriminalized. By contrast, polluters are given long jail terms. "Environmental crimes are just as life destructive as hitting people over the head, and ought to be punished similarly...