World Watch articles from May 2000

World Watch archives from May 2000

Making Sense of the Protests.(World Bank, International Monetary Fund)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The organizers of the mid-April protests in Washington, D.C., outside the annual Spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, did not succeed in their ostensible goal of shutting down the official meeting...

What's Afoot at Worldwatch.
May 1, 2000... We are entering a new era here, and I'd like to introduce you to some of the changes we have made. Lester Brown, who is now 66 and who had been the president of Worldwatch since he founded the Institute in 1974, has been named Chairman of the...

FROM READERS.
May 1, 2000... Why You and Me, But Not Them? I am writing regarding the question you asked in your Note "Formative Moments" (March/April), "What makes people care deeply... about the long-term health of the planet?" What gave me my consciousness and...

Chad/Cameroon oil pipeline moving forward.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... A controversial plan to construct a 1,000 kilometer oil pipeline through the heart of Cameroon--a plan that critics have called an environmental and social boondoggle--is back on track after several delays. The international consortium...

Another huge iceberg breaks free from Antarctica.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... In mid-March, the second largest iceberg ever recorded broke free from Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf and began floating freely in the adjacent Ross Sea, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Several days later,...

Oceanic findings confirm warming.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The world's oceans have warmed dramatically over the last four decades, according to research published in the March 24 issue of Nature. The new findings help resolve a disparity between the atmospheric temperature increases projected by...

Amphibia Fading.
May 1, 2000... The more we think we understand amphibian decline, the more mysterious it becomes-and the biggest mystery of all is whether we will act to stop it. Why did it die out? The golden toad (Bufo periglenes) is by now perhaps the world's most...

Escaping Hunger, Escaping Excess.
May 1, 2000... The big myth of malnutrition is that it's a problem of poor countries. But in world at once rich in food and filled with poverty, malnutrition now has many faces -- all over the world. TODAY, ETHIOPIA AND ITS neighbors are once again in the...

The Storm Over Globalization.
May 1, 2000... Dispatches from the global trade wars, in the days before and after the WTO, World Bank, and IMF protests More than 700 organizations and between 40,000 and 60,000 people took part in the protests against the Third Ministerial of the World...

Starving to Death.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... With the well-fed and the hungry coexisting side-by-side in every part of the world, global perceptions of famine have acquired an often callous detachment--as though the problem at our feet were really somewhere far away.

Crimes of Ignorance.(Fiber art of Lauren Camp)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The tragedies of the present--whether the starvation of Ethiopians in a world where there's food enough for everyone or the murders of gays and blacks in a country that promised refuge to the oppressed-have threads in common with the Holocausts...

After a Few Years of Globalization.
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