This sensible economic development / environment editorial appeared in the Saturday Indianapolis Star. It begins: "Our position is: Questions of adequate water resources in Boone County need to be addressed before massive growth takes place."
"Saving the Oceans" is the heading to this editorial today in the Washington Post that begins:
OVER THE PAST year and a half, two blue-ribbon panels -- the Pew Oceans Commission and the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy -- have put together major reports on the state of America's coastal waters. The reports, broadly speaking, agree on a depressing reality: This country's oceans are in trouble and absent dramatic policy changes will be irreversibly damaged. Both groups make extensive recommendations for averting such a catastrophe, which would both devastate major economic interests and constitute a fundamental betrayal of society's stewardship of its natural treasures. Over the past century this country has developed a commitment to preserving forest and desert wilderness, protecting air quality and safeguarding land-based species. The message of the two commissions is that policymakers must show a similar commitment to America's territorial waters, which comprise an area larger than the land mass of the United States.Posted by Marcia Oddi at August 22, 2004 03:01 PM