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LETTERS, Page 4ENDANGERED EARTH
Wow! Your description of what we are doing to the environment
(PLANET OF THE YEAR, Jan. 2) could do more for the earth than any
person ever named Man or Woman of the Year. It should awaken people
like me who have not been particularly sympathetic to ecological
concerns.
John B. Schuyler Jr.
Prescott, Ariz.
The contents of this cover story are an excellent example of
the solid-waste problem in this country.
David C.P. Wyman
Englewood, Colo.
Communist and capitalist alike, men are plunderers. Can anyone
tell me why gasoline, a nonrenewable, polluting liquid, costs only
about $1 per gal. in the U.S. while both milk and beer, which are
renewable, are more expensive? If the free market won't price
products and services according to their replaceability, then
there's a need for taxation to help restrict demand. I say increase
the taxes on gas by $1, with 50 cents going to public transit and
50 cents to the budget deficit. The watchwords for the 1990s should
be the five Cs: contentment, compassion, conservation, coexistence
and common interest.
John E. Glenn
Buffalo Grove, Ill.
In my office hangs a dusty, old EPA poster inscribed: "The
1970s must be the years when America pays its debts to the past by
reclaiming the purity of its air, its water and our living
environment. It is literally now or never. -- Richard Nixon." And
here we are at the end of the '80s, slipping closer to never.
James Hamel Clark
Nashville
Congratulations on your foresight and hindsight in selecting
the earth as Planet of the Year. I hope this distinction will help
raise the consciousness of the world's inhabitants, so that they
take the steps and make the sacrifices necessary to ensure the
prosperous existence of the earth and its population.
Sandra Willeboordse
Dusseldorf, West Germany
If a human being were to live forever, he would undoubtedly
take great pains to secure a viable world. Otherwise he would be
confronted with rancorous offspring holding him responsible for his
negligence. Though immortality does not exist in our fragile world
and individuals live for only decades, we must dedicate ourselves
to the world we will leave behind.
Rob van der Hurk
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Will someone tell me what is so horrific about the gradual
extinction of humanity or, for that matter, the death of one little
planet?
Frederick Ernst
Jaffrey, N.H.
Why not add oxygen to the list of natural resources -- oil,
gas, coal, salt, sand, gold and water, for example -- that we are
willing to pay for? If we were forced to buy the oxygen that is
exhaled by the world's forests, particularly the tragically
disappearing rain forests of South America, might we not more fully
appreciate the value of living trees?
Linda Campbell Franklin
Charlottesville, Va.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. In
the 20th century, man acted to destroy the planet. Let it be
written that in the 21st century man worked to heal his world.
Janice Sue Moglen
Reston, Va.
Planet of the Year? Cop-out of the year! You should be ashamed.
Leo W. Stockham
Albuquerque
I used to believe that only some extraterrestrial threat could
compel the feuding nations of the world to cooperate and work for
peace. Now the menace of the possible destruction of our natural
environment could achieve the same thing.
Georg Schwarzmann
Hirschaid, West Germany