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World Watch articles from March 2000
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World Watch archives from March 2000
The "American Century" and the Changing Climate.
March 1, 2000... In the February 1941 issue of his Life magazine, American publisher Henry Luce coined a hallmark phrase. Congress was reluctant to enter the war sweeping through Europe, and the military muscle of Germany and Great Britain far exceeded that of...
Formative Moments.
March 1, 2000... What makes people care deeply (or not care deeply, as is too often the case) about the long term health of the planet? What could bring the kind of sea change in human behavior and belief that many experts now say must happen very quickly?...
Correction.
March 1, 2000... In "Coming to Terms with the Arctic," January/February 2000, pages 30-31, we attribute an observation on the possibility of walrus decline as a consequence of polar ice loss to George Divoky, of the University of Alaska's Institute for Arctic...
FROM READERS.
March 1, 2000... Only Global Action Can Stop Collapse
Freud once stated categorically, "Worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration. Its success is never certain, for that depends upon the...
Mobilizing to Combat Global Warming.
March 1, 2000... Homo sapiens has always altered its immediate environment. For example, ancient farmers converted the Fertile Crescent--the fabled Babylon--into the desert wastes of Iraq. But only in the last few decades have we had the capacity to literally...
Energy for a New Century.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The stone age did not end because the world ran out of stones, and the oil age will not end because we run out of oil.
Don Huberts, Shell Hydrogen
(Division of Royal Dutch Shell)
The age of oil has so dominated social and economic...
EARTH DAY 2000.
March 1, 2000... A 30-YEAR REPORT CARD
On the first Earth Day in 1970, experts warned that the planet's natural systems were being dangerously destabilized by human industry. Here is how we have fared on some key fronts since then:
As our growing...
GAINING PERSPECTIVE.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... The proliferation of satellite technology, from spy-quality photos to low-resolution radar images, is giving us new, more meaningful ways to envision complex information about the Earth. But whether we will act on the picture of ecological...
POPs Culture.
March 1, 2000... If there's one form of industrial innovation that we can definitely do without, it's the kind that is continually producing new Persistent Organic Pollutants--toxins so potent and durable that current emissions may still be causing cancer and...
Coal Miner.
March 1, 2000... During the Industrial Revolution, children were extensively employed in coal mines. "Trappers" waited alone in mine shafts to open and close air ducts; "greasers" lubricated the axles of the coal cars; and "breaker boys" picked out pieces of...