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Pro-Earth movement here to stay
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By ANNE MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
The world’s heightened aware
ness of the environment is going
to last, Edward Wilson, a Pu
litzer Prize-winning author and
pioneer in behavioral science,
said afler a lecture Wednesday.
With Earth Day 1990 eminent,
some critics are skeptical of the
resurgence of environmental
awareness, calling it a fad that
will fade away after media atten
tion dies down.
A standing-room -only crowd at
the Tate Student Center theater
listened intently to Wilson, the
world’s leading ant behavior spe
cialist.
Wilson cited two reasons for
his optimism. For the first time
exact measurements of global
change, such as ozone depletion
and deforestation, are available.
‘Twenty years ago, we didn’t
know for sure," he said.
Secondly, Wilson pointed to a
change in attitudes toward pres
ervation.
‘The idea that environmental
awareness will stop human pro
gress is gone,” Wilson said.
He said doing something for
the environment doesn’t mean
just cleaning the air and water.
We now know that by using the
environment responsibly, we can
improve the quality of living.
“While we’re saving fish, let’s
find out what they can be used
for,” he said.
Biodiversity, the subject of the
lecture, is a relatively new field of
scientific research. It records the
assortment of species on earth in
order to develop a conservation
plan for those most threatened by
extinction.
Ron Pulliam, director of the
University’s Ecology Institute,
agrees that the time is right for
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world-wide environmental
changes. Pulliam pointed to the
energy crisis of the 1970s as one
reason the environmental
movement of the late 1960s died
down. Media coverage turned to
ward the energy crisis and the at
tention of the American people
followed it.
Wilson, a member of the Na
tional Academy of Sciences, said
until recently our attentions
were focused on three main eco
logical problems — global
warming, depletion of the ozone
and toxic waste contamination.
The massive species extinction
we’re now experiencing ultima
tely may be regarded as the most
important one, he said, because
it’s irreversible.
‘Tropical rain forests are being
destroyed at horrendous rates.
The area being slashed and
burned is equal to the size of
South Carolina," he said.
A wide variety of species live in
the tropical rain forests now
being depleted by cattle-grazing.
He said in a single tree taken
from a rain forest for study, 43
species of ants were found.
If the present rate of deforesta
tion continues, he said, in 30
years one-fourth of all species of
plants and animals on earth will
be extinct.
‘These tropical forests cover
only 6 percent of the earth’s sur
face. We’ve already cut the rain
forest down by about 50 percent,”
Wilson said.
He said only one-tenth of 1 per
cent of existing species are used
to their full potential. Possible
uses include pharmaceutical
products and petroleum.
He stressed the importance of
developing markets in third-
world countries to benefit the in
habitants while preserving the
land and species.
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Edward Wilson: Earth
awareness positive
“We’re doing alright for the
moment, but unless we make
great efforts to save the land,
we’re going to be in great
trouble," he said.
He called for increased aid
from the government, founda
tions and science in general to
identify hotspots of biodiversity
and preserve them.
Pulliam said the University
does a tremendous amount of
study in biodiversity, including
work in tropical rain forests.
He said a proposed graduate
degree program in conservation
and sustained development
would train students in con
serving whole landscapes. The
program has been tentatively ap
proved by the graduate program
and is awaiting the administra
tion’s approval.
said they’ll support abolishment
next spring if they can’t solve the
SA’s problems.
The ticket’s abolitionist perspec
tive may be an advantage at the
polling tables since many students
see the SA as ineffective, Dolan
said.
“If we were running on a pure
abolitionist ticket, then I think
we’d win,” he said. But he thinks
the SA can lx* salvaged.
The last abolitionist candidate,
Howard Mulherin, won the SGA
election in 1979. Within two
months, SGA was abolished by a 3
to 2 majority student vote.
Dolan and Corley may have diffi
culty, however, in working with re
turning senators who feel
threatened by their abolitionist
stand. Although neither has SA ex
perience, Dolan said he thinks
that’s an asset because it will make
him and Corley more objective.
Presidential candidate Heath
Garrett, a sophomore political phi
losophy major, and running mate
Ben Calhoun, a sophomore biology
major, said they consider them
selves middle-of-the-road candi
dates.
Garrett, who was an SA senator
in the 1988-89 term, said it’s to
their advantage that he didn’t
serve on the SA this term because
it gave him and Calhoun a chance
to objectively observe SA activities
by attending meetings.
Their middle-of-the-road stand,
however, may get little attention
considering they’re facing an aboli
tionist ticket on one side and an ex
perienced SA ticket on the other.
In last year’s elections, about 5,-
100 students, or 22 percent of the
student body, voted. The previous
year, 1,710 students, about 6.5 per
cent, voted.
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Brian Mirsky, a political science
professor, said students have no
reason to vote if they know nothing
about the candidates. Students
who don’t want to vote randomly
may choose not to vote — to let
people in the know vote.
“I’ve yet to see a single poster ad
dressing an issue — giving any
reason to vote for one candidate or
another," Mirsky said.
Since all three tickets have at
least one Greek candidate, the pos
sibility of one ticket carrying the
Greek vote is eliminated.
Corley is the only candidate who
is not a fraternity or sorority
member.
Ron Binder, adviser to fraterni
ties, said, “My experience on two
campuses is that Greeks vote more
— not a whole lot more — but
more.”
Mirsky said students who are in
volved in campus organizations
and activities tend to vote more be
cause they’re more likely to know
how the SA affects them.
If an organization actively dis
cusses the issues and candidates in
an election, its members are likely
to vote — and to vote for the same
ticket, he said
According to the SA constitu
tion, the winning ticket must re
ceive more than half of the vote*.
The three tickets are likely to split
the vote enough to prompt a runofT,
which will be April 24.
Expert warns of extinction
ATHENS, Ga. — Conservatio
nist Edward O. Wilson said
Wednesday developing countries
must see the economic advantage
of conserving plant and animal
life if the world is to avoid mas
sive extinction in the next 30
years.
“Conservation needs to be tied
far more closely to economic de
velopment,” Wilson told 600 Uni
versity of Georgia students and
faculty. “We need a conservation
ethic. Humanity is not distinct
from nature.”
Developing nations often
squander wilderness for short
term economic gains, even
though most countries stand to
gain more in the long run finan
cially by protecting those re
sources, said Wilson, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning author and Har
vard University population bi
ologist.
“Somehow we have to develop
a world economy, making full use
of that biodiversity, in a way that
brings greater prosperity to us
and far greater prosperity" to the
Third World, he said.
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