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I Have a New Dream
It’s so hard to do right in a world that expects you, rewards you, encourages you to do wrong. As when the Sierra Club, fighting off a Disney mountain development, discovered that it owned shares in Disney. Ever wonder what happens to all that junk mail? Photo: Philip Shepherd, NREL/PIX. As when environmentalists jet to […]
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Hitting the Nader on the Head
Wow! Did I ever infuriate my liberal friends when I said I would vote for Ralph Nader! [See Won’t You Be My Nader?.] They’ve been hammering me with earnest lectures about how every vote for Nader will help get Bush elected, and how an elected Bush will devastate the environment, enrich the rich, hand the […]
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How far can clean cars take us?
I loved cars long before I knew there was any reason to worry about their effect on the environment or be concerned about the smoke that poured from their tailpipes. In the 1960s, ignorance like mine was widespread in the United States, maintained by a powerful automotive lobby and a complacent federal government. Highway congestion, though already bad, was somewhat masked by an expanding national highway grid, and most people celebrated the migration to the suburbs that the new roads aided and abetted. Cars were equated with freedom, and ads of the period showed happy vacationing families riding in roomy sedans, with the uncrowded interstate stretching out in front of them.
