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LETTERS, Page 6Earthly Woes
As a participant in TIME's environment conference, I read your
special issue with particular pleasure (PLANET OF THE YEAR, Jan.
2). At one of our sessions, the Book of Genesis was mentioned. If
we were to interpret Genesis symbolically, we could say that
evolution, God's tool for creation, shaped the planet's flora and
fauna and made a kind of super gene bank that is to be used, not
destroyed. We should not miss one of Genesis' important messages:
natural resources must be utilized wisely, in ways that do not
endanger earth, of which we are the keepers.
Paulo Nogueira-Neto
So Paulo
We were dismayed to see that plastic-foam hamburger containers
are still being cited as a symbol of the use of
chlorofluorocarbons. The plastic-foam food-service container
industry announced in April 1988 the voluntary phaseout of fully
halogenated CFCs, the compounds considered most dangerous to the
stratospheric zone. More than 98% of the industry no longer uses
fully halogenated CFCs to make plastic-foam products for food
service. The remaining 2% is expected to convert within the first
few months of 1989.
Nancy J. Sherman
Vice President, Public Affairs
Foodservice & Packaging Institute, Inc.
Washington