Earth Rising

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Contents

At the Turn of the Millennium
13
CHAPTER 3
29
CHAPTER 4
53
CHAPTER 8
60
CHAPTER 5
83
CHAPTER 6
111
CHAPTER 7
137
America and the Global Environment
155
CHAPTER 9
177
Epilogue
195
Notes
205
Interviews
221
Bibliography
223
Index
227
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Page 194 - If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Page 5 - The 1970's absolutely must be the years when America pays Its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.
Page 216 - James MacGregor Burns, The Deadlock of Democracy (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963), p.
Page 156 - To begin with, the globalization system ... is not static, but a dynamic ongoing process: globalization involves the inexorable integration of markets, nation-states and technologies to a degree never witnessed before — in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ever before...
Page 5 - In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it.
Page 149 - ... agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and the RTC.
Page 177 - Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Page 218 - A Manifesto for the Fast World," New York Times Sunday Magazine, 28 March 1999, p.
Page iv - The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Page 178 - ... diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one "less traveled by" — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of our earth.

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