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ANALYTIC TITLE ENGLISH Mission to planet Earth
TITLE ENGLISH
Proceedings of the conference on technology-based
confidence building: Energy and environment
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McLucas,
J.L.
Allred, J.C.; Eckhardt, R.C.; Nichols,
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
A.S.
[eds.]
266-274
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National leaders are taking notice of the importance of
the topic, and it is the subject of discussion at
meetings of heads of state. Whereas only a few years ago,
most people were not concerned about the environment,
recent public opinions show that 3/4 of the people in
the US regard it as a primary concern that demands more
attention than it is getting. Many have gone even
farther in their thinking, to the point that they think
we are in a serious environmental crisis. It is possible
that the air of crisis is doing us a favor. It presents
the people of alli the Earth with the threat of a common
danger. It is usually easier to elicit people’s
cooperation in facing a common danger than it is to get
them to cooperate on some worthy but altruistic purpose.
Because of the threat, there is a surprising degree of
consensus that the problem is real,
that we must change
not only our ways of behaving but our ways of thinking
about our world. There is also a feeling that we used
both new policies and new leadership from the top to
deal adequately with what faces us. All of this leads me
to consider how we can use our space assets to improve
our knowledge and equip us to deal with the
environmental challenge. Mission to Planet Earth refers
to a continuing study of the Earth from space. One of
the principal points of this paper is that space is the
place to gather most of the data we need to understand
the Earth for the first time in all its beauty, glory,
and increasingly recognized vulnerability.
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT/environmental effects ;USA/resource
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management ;DATA ACQUISITION;DATA COMPILATION;
DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ; ECOLOGY ; GREENHOUSE
PROJECT;HUMAN POPULATIONS ;NASA;NATIONAL SCIENCE
FOUNDATION; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SATELLITES; SOLL
CONSERVATION;US DOE;US EPA;US NOAA;USA
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