Climate Change 24.4

28 October, 1998
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Editorial: Child of the Weekend Gets a Job

"Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?" The old taunt, a bumper sticker staple for those who see backpackers and nature lovers as threats to our way of life, is getting a little stale. Experience has shown that clear air, clean water and room for grizzlies can co-exist with decent jobs, if we choose. Applications of economic logic - from cutting subsidies for cars, to keeping forests healthy and productive - often make environmental sense, and true prosperity, we now know, won't be found in a world sucked dry of all that is clean and green. Sustainable development was once a buzzword only a bureaucrat could love. Now it's a growth industry.

Editorial: Child of the Weekend Gets a Job
Stephen Bocking

Stopped Cold
Heather A. Smith
Action by Canada on climate change has been blocked by opposition both inside and outside government.
Inset: Trading Scheme Offers One Way to Cut Greenhouse Gases by Trevor Fleck
Inset: Key Events


Allied Forces
Mae Burrows
Unions and environmentalists can work together for jobs and ecological sustainability.
Inset: Resolution


Lessons from a Latin Partner
M.A. Altieri and A. Rojas
Two decades of free market policies have spurred Chile's economy, but at a steep price.
Inset: Chilean Miners Dig Canada by C. McLaughlin

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Notes

Swamp Creatures Relieved
Shannon Curry
Brazil abandons huge project in Pantanal wetlands.

Community Logs
Jennie Barron
Westwind Forest Stewardship takes a nonprofit approach to forest management in Muskoka.

Smart Wood in Haliburton
Brent Wootton

Land at Ease
Kevin J. Gibson
New Brunswick becomes the most recent province to use conservation easements to protect the land.

In Film, Out of Place
Don Gayton
Movies are increasingly telling us that place is a mere commodity, to be traded and substituted at will.

Reviews

Sold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land 1867-1959 by Donald Craig Mitchel
Our Home or Native Land? What Governments' Aboriginal Policy Is Doing to Canada by Melvin H. Smith
From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development by Greg MacLeod
The Transformation of Capitalist Society by Zellig S. Harris
Redeeming the Time: A Political Theology of the Environment by Stephen Bede Scharper

Letters

Harms' Way: Debugging the Climate
Dave Harms

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