The Ecologist articles from March 1996

The Ecologist archives from March 1996

The future is a risky business.(Editorial)
March 1, 1996... The recently-publicized plan to reconstruct the Pentagon building according to ecological, energy-efficient principles is an outward sign of a much-heralded remodelling of the US military's image. New regulations covering the acquisition of...

BSE: madness in the method. (bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
March 1, 1996... "It seemed that they must have agencies all over the country to hunt out old and crippled and diseased cattle to be canned. There were cattle that had been fed on 'whisky-malt', the refuse of the breweries, and had become covered in boils .... ..

Mining the world: the global reach of Rio Tinto zinc. (includes related article on mining industry trouble spots in several countries)
March 1, 1996... For decades, transnational companies have dominated the mining of the earth's minerals - gold, copper, uranium, iron ore, bauxite, gems and so on - many of which are deposited in the countries of the South. Even in the 1950s and 1960s, when...

"Vaccination" against pregnancy: the politics of contraceptive research. (includes related articles on contraceptive abuse and the contoversy over immuno-contraceptives)
March 1, 1996... "The research conducted during the past two decades has brought us to the threshold of making available a new method for more effectively meeting the challenge of ever-increasing population expansion."(1) Vernon Stevens originator of WHO's...

Biotechnology to the rescue? Twelve reasons why biotechnology is incompatible with sustainable agriculture.
March 1, 1996... The transnational corporations which are the principal engines of "globalization" foster and promulgate a vision of their activities as both inevitable and progressive. On 15 April 1994, the New York Times carried a six-page advertisement that...

The Russian Far East: foreign direct investment and environmental destruction. (includes related article on the issue of private sector subsidies)
March 1, 1996... The Russian Far East - an area equal in size to two-thirds of the continental United States - is one of the world's last remaining wildernesses; it covers 6.63 million square kilometres, or 40 per cent of the Russian Federation.(1) Home to some...

Between the devil and the deep blue sea: development dilemmas in Mozambique.
March 1, 1996... Mozambique's beaches along its 2,500 kilometre coastline and its once abundant wildlife inland have drawn visitors since the colonial era. White elites from Mozambique, Rhodesia and South Africa came to one of the richest game parks in southern...

Chomsky's Politics.
March 1, 1996... For people accustomed to mainstream media reporting, Noam Chomsky's writings read like science fiction. The world he describes bears little obvious relation to the mosaic of video and sound bites we see and hear on the evening news. What...

From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side.
March 1, 1996... A contest over space in the district of New York known as the Lower East Side has been going on for a number of years: various competing interests - the state and its agents, property developers and local residents - have been engaged in a...

Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation.
March 1, 1996... In Ozone Discourses, Karen Litfin provides a compelling theoretical argument to contradict the common perception that scientific consensus is the source of political consensus and international environmental agreement. She demonstrates that...