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...cantankerous world. Indeed, even as the park custodians were cleaning up the Mall after the march, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that in the previous twelve months world population climbed 82.1 million, the largest gain in the history of this weary globe. In the view of Lester Brown of Worldwatch Institute, which monitors global stress, population is the most awesome problem. Masses of people shouldering each other for food, space, wealth and dignity are at the root of most wars. Nothing was said about this down on the Mall...
...operating nuclear facilities, it could encourage efforts to halt completion of the 57 federally approved plants now in various stages of construction. "I'm not arguing that you could pull the plug on every plant that's being built," said Chris Flavin, an energy expert with the Worldwatch Institute. "But the decision may give states an incentive...
...more U.S. homes are now heated by wood than by electricity from nuclear power plants. A recent study by Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering also found that more than 49% of all industrial boilers built in 1980 burn mainly wood. Says Energy Expert Nigel Smith of Worldwatch: "The U.S. is on the crest of the wave of nations returning to wood...
...Texas Nuclear Project. William Winpsinger, president of the million-member International Association of Machinists, registered his union's dismay at Reagan's nuclear plans, calling for increases in solar energy spending instead. And on the most practical level, people seem to be voting with their furnaces against nuclear power--Worldwatch Institute reports that as of January 1981, more of America's total energy came from wood than from nuclear reactors...
Lester Brown, the president of Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based environmental research group, believes that the world's life-supporting resources, notably soil, grasslands, forest and fish, are either deteriorating or being depleted, and that these factors inevitably will lead to less growth and more inflation...