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Critiques the Clinton administration's environmental goals & policies, with a specific focus on the role played by Vice President Al Gore. It is suggested that Gore's environmentally focused Earth in the Balance (1987) gave many environmentalists hope that the Clinton/Gore team would reverse the destructive policies of previous administrations. However, due in part to opposition by an increasingly conservative Congress, the majority of Gore's environmental goals were given up or put aside. It is argued that the theory put forward in Gore's book was not as radical as many judged it to be, & that the environment was fundamentally an issue used by Democrats to fill the void left by the erosion of the Cold War. Gore's book constructed this parallel in three ways: the equation of environmental policies with healthy government, the replacement of the Cold War with the battle against ecological threats (& the US potential to become an environmental superpower), & the suggestion that global capitalism would stabilize under the guidelines of environmentalism. T. Sevier

This is a tale of our times. marking the 25th anniversary of Friends of the Earth, Promising the Earth locates the inside story of pioneering campaigns within a broader canvas. No single organization's record can expect to paraphrase the development of environmental consciousness and the growth of grassroots environmental movement, but experiences bear intimate witness to a story that is still unfolding. Enlivened by arresting illustrations and glimpses of colourful personalities that the issues of the day have brought to the fore, Promising the Earth takes stock of changing realities in, and attitudes to, environmental care over the past quarter-century. This eventful chronical acts as a platform from which to survey the future that lies beyond the threshold of the 21st century.

WILL THOSE WHO SURVIVE FAMINES IN THE FUTURE BE BLAMED FOR THE DEATHS OF THOSE WHO DID NOT? PERSONS HAVE A RIGHT NOT TO BE KILLED & A CORRESPONDING DUTY NOT TO KILL; HOWEVER, SOME KILLING IS JUSTIFIABLE, OR UNAVOIDABLE. EXAMPLES OF JUSTIFIABLE KILLINGS ON LIFEBOATS ARE DISCUSSED & COMPARED WITH THE HUMAN SPECIES ON 'LIFEBOAT EARTH'. TODAY, SOME DEATHS ARE PRODUCED BY DISTANT AFFLUENT NATIONS; ON LIFEBOAT EARTH THERE ARE SPECIAL QUARTERS FOR 1ST CLASS PASSENGERS IN WHICH FOOD & WATER ARE STORED. EVEN ON A WELL-EQUIPPED BOAT, THE EXERCISE OF CONTROL CAN LEAD TO DEATH OF THOSE WHO LACK CONTROL. ON AN ILL-EQUIPPED BOAT, SOME MUST DIE IN ANY CASE, SOME KILLINGS MAY BE JUSTIFIABLE. THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF SOME LEADS TO OTHERS' DEATHS; IN SOME UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES, THE LOWERED STANDARD OF LIVING ESTABLISHED BY A FIRM & DISTRIBUTION DECISIONS MAY LEAD TO DEATHS. THE TRUE SITUATION ON LIFEBOAT EARTH IS THAT OF SCARCITY. SOME WILL DIE WHO MIGHT HAVE SURVIVED AS RESULT OF SURVIVOR ACTIONS. VARIOUS PRINCIPLES ARE SUGGESTED ON WHICH TO BASE FAMINE & PREFAMINE POLICIES. IN THE SCARCITY SITUATIONS AHEAD, THE QUALITY & CONDITION OF LIFE WHICH IS TO QUALIFY FOR SURVIVAL MUST BE CONSIDERED. R. LENT.

This paper aims to examine the assumptions of Moral Twin Earth, an argument formulated by Terence Horgan and Mark Timmons with the intention of refuting the realistic naturalistic proposal of moral known as Cornell's realism. The Moral Twin Earth provides some intuitive evidence that terms naming moral kinds are not rigid designators of natural properties and, therefore, it is not possible to offer a naturalistic definition for them, which is supposed to be a Cornell's realism claim. However, in this paper, I try to demonstrate that Cornell's realism does not assume rigid designation relations between terms for moral kinds and natural properties to support its naturalistic thesis. Instead of the identity relation between moral and natural kinds that would be brought about by the rigid designation, Cornell's realism maintains only the metaphysical thesis that moral kinds are constituted or realized by natural properties which leaves it open the possibility of multiple realization of moral kinds. As Cornell's realism does not commit itself with the semantic thesis that Horgan and Timmons criticize, then the Moral Twin Earth does not seem to offer an objection to this moral realism.

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This essay considers the multiscalar manifestations of loss and the destruction of loss through the material-semiotic figure of "spent earth," a toxic waste by-product generated by the industrial bleaching of crude oils into edible oils. Drawing on two distinct encounters with spent earth in the Indonesian palm oil sector, the essay reflects on the substance's unevenly distributed effects across peoples, places, and generations; its association with visions of purity and realities of complicity; and the importance of attending to loss through both its situated, localized manifestations and its partial connections across sites, scales, and subjects.

Rare Earth is an attempt to define the spirit of an age. Exploring how todays myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technologythrough reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic tableRare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.Rare earth elements are the game-changing foundation of our most powerful innovations, are fundamental to contemporary accoutrements such as mobile phones, iPods and iPads, liquid crystal displays, LEDs, light bulbs, CDs and DVDs. Often described as conflict materials due to the limited number of easily accessible mines, they are also integral to weapon systems used for cyber-warfare, medical technologies (including MRI scanning equipment), hybrid vehicles, wind turbines, and other green energy applications. Consequently, rare earth elements play an increasing role in global affairs and power inventions that facilitate our changing self-imagegiving birth to todays emergent myths and identities.Rare Earth grounds our strange, seemingly weightless cultural moment. While we may design our technologies, these tools and weapons shape us in turn. It may seem that we dream the contemporary into existence, but perhaps rare earth elements are dreaming through us. After the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, this is the age of Rare Earth.