Eugene Linden
Comment
Jul/Aug
2004
Experience has shown that piecemeal efforts to protect tropical forests cannot do the job. Conservationists must rethink their approach, implementing conservation on a continental scale, and fast.
Essay
Jan/Feb
1996
Humanity is on the move as never before, and most of those who leave home seeking a better life head for a city. The most explosive growth has been in the Third World, which has 213 cities of more than a million people and some 20 at the 10-million mark. Megacities breed megaproblems--pollution, disease, and desperation. With the fate of urban areas increasingly determining the fate of nations and regions, how these overburdened poorer cities handle the influx will affect us all.
