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Lug Aio 1 `A r-iPnui'$ • .` /? REVIEW & OUTLOOK • ya,�,s-�.Y ixJ. .r ';.` k.?^. rd``;+�.''6 '`„ . ._+. z •x%.',,'&+b s.:k2' a a A quarter century after the first for helping them d change their packag- Earth Day, a growing number of writ- ing,and Mr.Easterbrook agreedto m- ers and scr n rs a en- =elude a correction Sheet with each vironment in the develo•ed world •. copy.But he thinks the real reason for •ra-- . cal u • rs . I ore. oJi t- EDF's overreaction was that his book etc ly, some argue tli'at the:'doonisday criticizes environmental groups for r19 rhetoric of activistssuch4as"Vtce Pres pe juatrn:their doomsda rheto ident Al Gore is now hurting the move o" •< e ' un•-raising an• sustain ment's credibility. ,them as Beltway players. One of the new breed of anti-hys ° This critique tracks with that.in terics is Roger Sedjo, a senior fellow ruiiz�,"a new book by$Iark IJ at Resources for the Future.He . ' it^ ovule, former publisher of the leftish out that the loss of forest land has - Mother Jones magazine. Mr. Dowie most cease in deve ape countries_ writes that environmental groups four million trees are planted in tte. have become increasingly bureau- II.S.every day,85%byprivate owners.,.. cratic,estranged from grass-root sup- n am ores ass po'ers and have run out of ideas. A World will likely end as countries itn study of environmental groups by the prove agricultural productivity, en- Nation- magazine concluded, "The force property rights and end subsi mainstream high brass is elitist, dies for land clearing. : - highly paid;"detached from the people, Gregg Easterbrook; an''environ indifferent to the working class and a mental writer for Newsweek and the firm Ally°of big government." And a • New Republic, has found himself new study by the Center for the Study turned into one of the most contz►ver- Of American Businesss`at Washington sial of these new thinkers Hit n `,:university reports that as much as book, "A Moment on the' 25%of their revenues go to fund-rais- Coming Age orEnvironniental'Optf' - n and up to another 20%is siphoned mism," is an update,on the State"of off or membership"development' Mother Earth today. tie reports that: `;,.That may explain some of the find- smo h declined b .40%in the U.S ings`in a'December poll of public atti- since 1970, though e mum er o cats tildes toward America's charities by aTi s almost doubled. The number of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Not a lakes and streams that are safe,for; single environmental group made the fishing and swimming has doubled. -public's list of the 20 "best-liked" or Toxic emissions b eric industry °"most credible"causes.Among the 20 have declined by 43%in just the-past�,."least credible"were Greene e seven years,arra there are more acres Sierra Club, EDF and Friends oil& of forests in America now than uiig20, al-ff.-Several environmental groups 1Grr. Easterbrook- a ieves =current . h ave also fallen on hard times. EDF's trnnAc moan that in[R/natnrn nnnntwina ..,.wY7-.....LS. a_ -am aL� •