A Day In The Life Of Mother Earth : A SPECIAL EARTH SUMMIT ISSUE OF WORLD REPORT
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World leaders will gather for a global summit on environment and development in Rio de Janeiro on June 3. If it’s a typical day . . .
250,000 people will be added to the world’s population;
Up to 140 species of living creatures will be doomed to extinction;
Nearly 140,000 new cars, trucks and buses will join 500 million already on the road;
56 million tons of carbon dioxide will spew into the atmosphere;
Forest covering an area more than one-third the size of Los Angeles will be destroyed;.
More than 12,000 barrels of oil will be spilled in the world’s oceans . . .
Mother Earth has amazing recuperative powers. But scientists fear the load may now be too much . . .
The Staff for ‘Mother Earth’
SECTION EDITOR: Dan Fisher
NEWS EDITOR: Jane Engle
ART DIRECTOR: Paul Gonzales
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR: Denise Beeber
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Juanita Darling in Mexico, Maura Dolan in Los Angeles, David Holley in Beijing, Joel Havemann in Brussels, Sam Jameson in Tokyo, Rone Tempest in Paris
ARTISTS: Victor Kotowitz, Susan Mondt, Anders Ramberg
PHOTO EDITORS: Robert Durell, Jayne Kamin
GRAPHICS EDITOR: Chris Erskine
RESEARCHERS: Kevin Fox, Tom Lutgen
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