Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise

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Notes 3. Windows on the World 1. “The Amsterdam Declaration on Global Change,” issued by the scientific communities of four international global change research programs: the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, the World Climate Research Programme, and the international biodiversity program DIVERSITAS . Prepared at the Global Change Open Science Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 13, 2001, (accessed April 10, 2002). 2. Carl Sagan, Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (New York: Random House, 1997), 16–18. 3. Lester R. Brown, “Eradicating Hunger: A Growing Challenge,” in State of the World 2001, by Lester R. Brown et al. (New York: Norton, 2001), 60–61. 4. Marla Cone, “Growth Slows as Population Hits 6 Billion,” Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1999. 5. Population Reference Bureau, 2000 World Population Data Sheet. 6. Brown, “Eradicating Hunger,” 45. 7. Jane Lubchenko, “Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Contract for Science,” Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 15, 1977; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), “The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, 2000,” (accessed April 10, 2002). 8. Population and Consumption Task Force, President’s Council on Sustainable Development, “Population and Consumption Task Force Report,” 1996, (accessed April 10, 2002). 9. Ibid. 10. FAO, “State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, 2000.” 177 11. American Fisheries Society, “Marine, Estuarine, and Diadromous Fish Stocks at Risk of Extinction in North America (Exclusive of Pacific Salmonids),” Fisheries Magazine, November 2000. 12. Rodger Doyle, “Sprawling into the Third Millennium,” Scientific American , March 2001. 13. Susan Milius, “Just How Much Do U.S. Roads Matter?” Science News, February 5, 2000, 95. 14. U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, “National Transportation Statistics 2000,” Report no. BTS01-01, April 2001; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Automobiles and Ozone,” January 1993 (updated July 1998), EPA 400-F-92-006, Fact Sheet OMS-4, (accessed April 10, 2002). 15. U.S. EPA, “Your Car and Clean Air: What YOU Can Do to Reduce Pollution ,” July 20, 1998, (accessed April 10, 2002). 16. Randolph E. Schmid, “Population Doubling: Twice as Many Americans by 2100,” Associated Press, January 12, 2000. 17. David Pimentel, Mario Giampietro, and Sandra Bukkens, “An Optimum Population for North and Latin America,” Population and Environment 20, no. 2 (November 1998): 125–48; David Pimentel and Mario Giampietro, “Food, Land, Population and the U.S. Economy,” (Washington, D.C.: Carrying Capacity Network), (accessed April 10, 2002). 18. The Minnesota New Country School Frog Project, updated September 8, 1999, (accessed April 9, 2002). 19. Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, North American Reporting Center for Amphibian Malformations, U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center home page, version March 27, 2002, (accessed April 9, 2002). 20. Gary Casper, interview by Susan Campbell, March 21, 1998. 21. Katharine Q. Seelye, “Ending Logjam, U.S. Reaches Accord on Endangered Species,” New York Times, August 30, 2001, A1. 22. World Conservation Union Species Survival Commission, “2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species” (Gland, Switzerland: World Conservation Union, 2000), tables 1q, 12b, (accessed April 10, 2002). 23. John Tuxill, “Appreciating the Benefits of Plant Biodiversity,” in State of the World 1999, by Lester R. Brown et al., Worldwatch Institute Books (New York: Norton, 1999), 97. 24. United Nations Environment Programme, Global Environment Outlook 2000, (accessed February 28, 2002); Charlotte Schubert, “Life on the Edge: Will a Mass Extinction Usher in a World of Weeds and Pests?” Science News 160, September 15, 2001, 168–169. 25. “Biodiversity in the Next Millennium,” a nationwide survey developed by the American Museum of Natural History and Louis Harris and Associ178 Notes to pages 32–37 ates, Inc., in conjunction with the opening of the museum’s new Hall of Biodiversity , 1998; Schubert, “Life on the Edge,” 170. 26. Susan Milius, “U.S. Biosurvey Reveals Worrisome Trends,” Science News 156, September 25, 1999, 199; U.S. Geological Survey, “Status and Trends of the Nation’s Biological Resources,” September 20, 1999, (accessed April 10, 2002); Rodger Doyle, “Plants at Risk in the U.S.,” Scientific American, August 1997, 26. 27. “Mass Extinction of Freshwater Creatures Forecast,” Environment News Service, October 4, 1999, (accessed April 10, 2002). 28. U.S. Geological Survey, “Status and Trends.” 29. William J. Broad, “Conservationists Write a Seafood Menu to Save Fish,” New York...