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- LETTERS, Page 6Earthly Woes
-
- As a participant in TIME's environment conference, I read
- your special issue with particular pleasure (PLANET OF THE YEAR,
- Jan. 2). At one of our sessions, the Book of Genesis was
- mentioned. If we were to interpret Genesis symbolically, we
- could say that evolution, God's tool for creation, shaped the
- planet's flora and fauna and made a kind of super gene bank that
- is to be used, not destroyed. We should not miss one of Genesis'
- important messages: natural resources must be utilized wisely,
- in ways that do not endanger earth, of which we are the keepers.
-
- Paulo Nogueira-Neto So Paulo
-
- We were dismayed to see that plastic-foam hamburger
- containers are still being cited as a symbol of the use of
- chlorofluorocarbons. The plastic-foam food-service container
- industry announced in April 1988 the voluntary phaseout of
- fully halogenated CFCs, the compounds considered most dangerous
- to the stratospheric zone. More than 98% of the industry no
- longer uses fully halogenated CFCs to make plastic-foam products
- for food service. The remaining 2% is expected to convert within
- the first few months of 1989.
-
- Nancy J. Sherman Vice President, Public Affairs
- Foodservice & Packaging Institute, Inc. Washington
-