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LETTERS, Page 4Japan and the Environment
It is high time that the world focus on Japan's lack of
international environmental conscience, as reported in your article
"Putting the Heat on Japan" (ENVIRONMENT, July 10). But a real
change in Japanese attitudes toward conservation outside its
borders depends on the development of a strong grass-roots voice
and support for ecology within the country. Otherwise, the
government will continue to resist outside pressures.
Yuri Kusuda
Bethesda, Md.
I am from Sarawak, Malaysia, and read with outrage and sorrow
the report on Japanese logging activities in my native land. An
aerial view of Borneo used to reveal seemingly endless stretches
of green jungles and brown, meandering rivers. Now there are vast,
empty tracts denuded of trees. I wasn't aware that much of the
Malaysian lumber is used for making throwaway forms in construction
work. Can't Japan come up with a man-made substitute? That nation
must be compelled to act more responsibly.
Rose Wong-MacMichael
Bradenton, Fla.