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2000
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home from above...
Rational
environmental arguments lost on many voters - We are
sure most of you who read these pages are regularly baffled
by how poorly rational arguments on environmental issues
fare in the public forum.
The logic of maintaining forest health by
intelligent logging, and maintaining roads to facilitate
such logging and aid in fire suppression, seems
irrefutable.
Since global warming predictions have
proven to be grossly flawed, it is difficult to understand
why reasonable people don't reject the "greenhouse
gas" scare.
We watch in amazement when modern
herbicides and pesticides are labeled as harmful to our
health when our lifespans have increased nearly 40 percent
since we began using modern agricultural chemicals in the
late 1940s.
And we are baffled when the public accepts
the notion that air pollution is responsible for increased
asthma, even when presented with the facts that asthma has
increased as air pollution has fallen, and the greatest
increases in asthma have come in undeveloped countries. This
list of amazing contradictions between fact and public
perception could go on forever. The explanation, we fear
more and more, is becoming clear. Some personal examples
seem to be powerful indicators of what is at work here...
Agency
Cites Growing Danger of Erosion Along U.S. Coasts -
In a report to Congress, the Federal Emergency Management
Agency said yesterday that a quarter or more of houses
within 500 feet of the United States coast may be lost to
erosion in the next 60 years, putting intolerable strain on
the federal Flood Insurance Program...
Sierra
Club Sues Over Marketing of Tourism - The Sierra
Club is seeking a court order to halt the Hawaii Tourism
Authority’s efforts to boost tourism until the potential
impact on the state’s environment can be determined. The
Hawaii chapter of the San Francisco-based environmental
group filed a petition with the Hawaii Supreme Court on
Tuesday asking that the authority suspend its tourism
marketing efforts until it prepares an environmental
assessment...
Environmentalists
sue to protect vanishing Florida panther habitat -
The suit contends federal agencies have not done enough to
protect the rare and endangered panthers. As expected, a
coalition of environmental groups sued three federal
agencies Tuesday, contending they have not done enough to
protect the endangered Florida panther from South Florida's
sprawling growth. The coalition, which includes the Florida
Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club, wants to halt all
development threatening the panther in those fast-growing
counties. They have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Federal Highway
Administration in federal court in Washington, D.C...
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