nuovo libro WWI

["Alessandro.Gimona"@peacelink.peacelink.it ("Alessandro Gimona")]

From: "Alessandro Gimona" <agimona at hotmail.com>
Subject: nuovo libro WWI

Cari tutti,
nuovo libro del world Watch Institute (ordinabile on-line 
http://www.worldwatch.org) su ambiente e globalizzazione.

Spero interessi (e che aiuti i futuri politici a mettere a punto politiche 
ambientali).

ciao
Alessandro Gimona



  GLOBALIZATION STRAINING PLANET'S HEALTH:
  Cross-Border Alliances Needed to Safeguard Environment



      Globalization presents growing threats to the planet and its 
inhabitants,
  according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington 
DC-based
  research organization. Forests are shrinking as the value of global trade 
in
  forest products climbs, from $29 billion in 1961 to $139 billion in 1998. 
And
  fisheries are collapsing as fish exports rise, growing nearly fivefold in 
value
  since 1970 to reach $52 billion in 1997. Human health is also endangered, 
with
  pesticide exports increasing nearly ninefold since 1961, to $11.4 billion 
in
  1998.

      "The surge in movements of goods, money, species, and pollution across
  international borders is placing unprecedented strains on the planet," 
said
  Hilary French, author of Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the 
Age of
  Globalization. "Ironically, the best way to tackle these problems is by 
putting
  globalization to work for us, instead of against us."

      Channeling globalization to protect, rather than undermine, the 
earth's
  natural systems, is key to building an environmentally stable society in 
the
  21st century. People are using new communications technologies to create
  powerful international coalitions, like last December's outpouring of 
citizen
  concern at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle. And 
trade can
  help spread environmentally beneficial products and technologies, from