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GLOBAL
WARMING |
| Few environmental concerns
promise to have a greater impact on our lives for a longer period of
time than global warming. Its manifestations - some already
visible include floods, droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, famines,
tree death and specie extinctions - not to mention such personal
afflictions as increased respiratory illnesses and accelerated cancers. |
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| Among the "greenhouse
gases" which contribute to disastrous global warming, the most serious
is carbon dioxide, followed closely by methane and the CFC's. |
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| Because the problem is
worldwide, proposed solutions must be multinational. |
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| Much has been done even
now toward partial solutions. We know, for example, that the
earth's overload of carbon dioxide results in large measure from the
burning of fossil fuels, the effluence of our power plants and our
rampant deforestation. Methane is almost wholly the product of
cattle rumen and belching. And atmospheric detection skills show
that CFC's come from our ill-considered use of the wrong propellants,
refrigerants and plastic foams. |
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| Corporate Average Fuel
Economy (CAFE) standards, much improved over the past, are still far
short of what our technology can provide. Attempts by the U.S.
auto industry to frighten the public into larger cars must be unmasked. |
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| Continued reduction in the
consumption of red meat will be a step in reducing the earth's
population of cattle, thus reducing the pressure to deforest ate the
land in search of pasture. Forests can be saved for tourism and
for their true function as purifiers of the air. |
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| The Federation of
Western
Outdoor Clubs asks for support for a uniform, worldwide code of
environmental policies to stay the course of global warming and to
provide a more favorable quality of life for the world's people -
including limitations on population growth. |
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| Since much of the world's
plight occurs as a result of the U.S.'s disproportionate and
inefficient use of energy, we need to begin by demanding that our
government devise a sustainable national energy policy. |
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| National energy policies
can be amplified by international cooperation - possibly through the
United Nations where environmentalism can be shown to be economic. |
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| Write your elected
representatives in the national government, including the President and
relevant federal government agencies. Write the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Mr. Thomas Pickering, 799 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017. Write the Secretary General of the United Nations, Javier Perez de Cuellar, United nations, New York, NY 10017. |
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