World Watch articles from March 2001

World Watch archives from March 2001

The Ones Who Will Be Remembered.(Editorial)
March 1, 2001... If the history of humanity were compressed into 24 hours, the Industrial Revolution would have occurred in just the last 10 seconds, and the so-called Information Revolution in just the last one second. Our evolution has not prepared us for the...

The World: Nature Will Not Wait.
March 1, 2001... The fall of the Berlin Wall and the political storm that swept across the world a little over a decade ago was above all else a testament to the power of the human spirit to tackle adversity. The Cold War had posed a threat to security,...

The United States: Another Leap Backward?(environmental policy)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The United States is responsible for more environmental devastation than any other nation, as indicated by America's use of about a quarter of the world's energy and its accounting for almost the same proportion of [CO.sub.2] emissions. To...

FROM READERS.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2001... The Wisdom of Wendell Berry Paul Schick's facile remarks on Wendell Berry's ideas (November! December 2000 letter) reveal more about Mr. Schick than about their purported subject. Berry's very substantial works over recent decades stand on...

ENVIRONMENTAL INTELLIGENCE.
March 1, 2001... * Climate change report released: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) officially released its latest report on global warming on January 22, citing "new and stronger evidence that most of the observed warming of the last 50...

THE VIRTUE OF RESTRAINT.(are we a nation of excess)
March 1, 2001... IS THERE SUCH A THING AS TOO MUCH CHOICE? It was supposed to be a quick run to the food store. All I needed was a quart of milk and some cereal for a house guest. I hurried into the Giant, our aptly named supermarket, and made my way to the...

Homogenized Planet.(standards in the cheese industry)
March 1, 2001... Cheese vs. Cheesefood, and the dilemma of global standards Twenty years ago, while living on Guam, I was befriended by Heiko, an amicable scavenger who always knew where to forage for the tastiest mangoes, or where you could get the...

Chad Purchases Weapons with Oil Pipeline Money.(World Bank funding misused on military spending)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Chadian President Idriss Deby purchased S4.5 million worth of weapons with money from the controversial Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project, despite his agreement with the World Bank that the funds would be used on education, infrastructure...

AIDS Over Asia.(statistics, health care policy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... An international conference on HIV/ AIDS held in Hong Kong in late December 2000 strongly confirms the findings reported in the January/February issue of WORLD WATCH, which went to press two weeks earlier. The WORLD WATCH article ("AIDS Has...

Toxic Fertility.(nitrogen )
March 1, 2001... Over the past half century, the amount of biologically active nitrogen circulating through the world's living things has probably doubled. In unnatural excess, an essential nutrient is becoming a kind of ecological poison. LAST DECEMBER,...

Just Add Oil.(petroleum industry, accidents and energy policy)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Whether you noticed or not, thick, black, crude oil has been all over the newspapers, television, and even the Internet since the beginning of the year. Perhaps the biggest news about oil was the elevation of George W. Bush to the U.S....

The American Way of Choice.(popular culture statistics, United States)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... The American Way of Choice Number of types of packaged bread 104 available at a Safeway in Lake Ridge, Virginia Number of those breads containing 0 no hydrogenated fat, diglycerides, or "dough...