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Environmentalist Nathaniel Reed Speaks Out on ENN Radio
Which technologies stand the best chance of leading us efficiently and sustainably into the future? What's a "cracker house?" Why do wintergreen Lifesavers spark when bitten?
Explore these intriguing questions and more by tuning in to the latest edition of ENN Radio with Jerry Kay. Guests include Laurent Pacalin of California Clean Tech Open, Bill Belleville, author of "Losing It All to Sprawl," and Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Science Friday.
But first, Kay speaks with prominent environmental leader Nathaniel Reed, former assistant secretary of Interior for Fish, Wildlife and National Parks in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. His accomplishments in that role include helping to ban the use of DDT, ensuring the Park Service's adherence to the Wilderness Act, and persuasively extolling the importance of conservation as a way of life in America.
Currently, Reed lives in Hobe Sound, Florida and works full-time on behalf of the environment through leadership roles in numerous organizations including 1000 Friends of Florida, Natural Resources Defense Council, Commission on the Future of Florida's Environment, and National Geographic Society.
In his conversation with Jerry Kay, Reed brings his unsurpassed knowledge of the environment to bear, revealing which three challenges he sees as most significant today.
Global warming, he says, ranks first. As he tells Kay, the natural warming cycle is accelerating dangerously due to power plant and automobile pollution, resulting in a condition with grim implications. He fears that rising seas will mean that his great-grandchildren won't ever get to visit Key West, and believes that all up the east coast warming will have an enormous impact.
Second, Reed points to water as a tremendous challenge in the coming century, specifically who will get it, and in what condition. The third greatest problem facing the world's environment, in Nat Reed's opinion, stems from accelerating desertification, with landscapes being denuded as a result of overgrazing.
Despite these and other hurdles facing the world's environment today, Reed says that he maintains an optimistic outlook. "I see great promise in today's young people," he says. "We need to incent them to find answer to these problems."
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