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Amazon project: fight over funds, sovereignty and forests
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1992
IT is two years since western governments, in a fit of enthusiasm
for green issues, proposed a US $1.5 billion "pilot project" to
find ways to protect the world's rainforests. Meeting in Houston,
Texas, the "Group of Seven" rich industrial nations backed a
scheme from Germany's Chancellor Kohl to test out their ideas in
the largest rainforest of them all -- the Brazilian Amazon.
Passing USA's laugh test
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1992
THAT America rules the waves became abundantly clear to me when I witnessed USA flex its muscles over the entire world at the last session of the Climate Change Convention. The UN was reduced to functioning as an extension of the US state department. And
George Bush made a "neutered" climate convention - the centrepiece of the UNCED circus - conditional to his attendance at the Earth Summit.
Of maggots and murder mysteries
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1992
AN entirely new breed of detectives has come up in the USA - the forensic entomologists.
Detectives were stumped at the discovery of a 34-year-old man's decomposing body,'with a bullet through his neck, in a
Western expansionism caused more carbon emission
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1992
THIRTY years of deforestation in the temperate regions has caused more pollution than 140 years' use of forests in the tropics.
Communitise natural resource management
Issue Date: May 31, 1992
PRIME Minister P V Narasimha Rao's government has taken dramatic
steps in less than a year of its existence towards a liberalised
regime for the industrial sector. If the new policies indeed
lead to increased economic activity, there will be greater
pressures operating on the natural environment. Given India's
people, almost every ecological space within the country is being
used by different occupational groups for their survival. There
are no virgin lands left to exploit. Ecological destruction has,
