European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 16. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 ecology reported in hands of few Washington at1 whether the Issue is the gradual warm ing of inc Earth or the world population increase a new study finds that the key to major environmental improvements is held by just a handful of countries. Illus trading the Point the fourth an Nual slate of the world volume published by the Washington based world watch Institute said Brasil Indonesia and Zaire contain in percent of the world s tropical forests. Those forests could store enough car inn to influence the greenhouse effect the warming of the Tarth caused by car Bon dioxide and other gases from Indus trial activity. Unfortunately Bra in and Indonesia Are both pursuing National resettlement programs thai will reduce the remaining rain Forest area and Zaire has shown Little leadership in Forest management the i Nort said. One of the authors Edward c. Wolf said at a briefing for reporters none of those three has  their role As stewards in the Carbon Cycle the same Point could be made in re research notes How 3 nations treat offenders Washin Citon al1 adults arrested for Rob Bery in the United states. Canada and England face a similar risk of serving jail or prison sentences a study prepared for the Justice department has indicated. The incarceration Rales for burglary and theft also Are comparable but not As close As those for robbery said the report written by James p. Lynch of Ameri can University for the department s Bureau of Justice statistics. Results of the report were released saturday. Lynch sought to determine How different countries real similar kinds of offenders. He also collected data from Germany hut. I because of differences in the German Legal system was unable to make a direct comparison. The study indicates that even though a far greater percentage of the adult population is arrested in the United states than in other countries once arrested adults Facea comparable Chance of going to prison the findings contradict a belief in some quarters that in the United Stales persons arrested for such crimes Are More Likely to be Scot to jail or prison than in other coun tries said Steven r. Schlesing Jjck. Bureau director. Lynch speculated that the higher arrest rate in the United slates is caused by a higher crime Rale. He also noted that robbers Are much More Likely to use a gun in the United slates than in Canada and Britain. Pony nine percent of those arrested for robbery in the United slates eventually serve prison time compared with 52 percent in Canada and 48 percent in England and Wales. For burglary the figures Are United states 35 per cent Canada Ujj percent and England 30 percent. Tor theft it is United states is percent Anil Canada and England h percent. The paper noted that the . Figures were adjusted to allow for the possibility of an offender being arrested on one charge and being found guilty of a lesser charge. Statistics from the other two countries were not. Thi unadjusted i a. Percentages were rubbery. 3s burglary. -7. And theft 17, Gard to the source of the buildup of car Don dioxide the report by the Environ mental research organization said. Fossil fuels burning is inc source of most of the Carbon dioxide and world Walb noted that inc soviet Union. China and inc United states account for half n f c m missions and two thirds of world Coal reserves. The Energy policies of these three countries really loom very Large in the world s climatic future Wolf said. The Industrial countries Are responsible for emissions of chlorofluorocarbon chemicals that threaten the Earth s Ozone layer and production curbs should not be unmanageable the Ripon said. Major producing countries arc meet ing under the auspices of the United nations environmental program to consider an International agreement to limit chlorofluorocarbon production and Wolf said that conference appeared to be a slip ahead of other  for some of the major adjustments facing humanity a relatively Small num. Her of countries hold the key to Success atch researchers wrote. In  growth the report said India and China accounted for 35 per cent of world population increase in i9r6 Nigeria and Egypt accounted fora Quarter of the births m Africa Mexico and lira in More than half of latin Amer ican births. Even though those countries dominate the numbers several arc vulnerable to environmental economic and social disaster because they Tannin reduce population growth. The slow growth regions Floc Europe where 12 countries now have completed the transition and have essentially stable population the soviet Union Nort America Australia and new zealand and East Asia including China and Japan. Annual growth rates in All these areas Are 1.0 percent or less and All Are heading toward stability. In the rest of the world growth Rales average 2.5 percent per year ranging from 2.2 percent in Southeast Asia to 2,8 percent in Africa. Many of the countries with rapid population growth have declining in comes whereas almost All those with minimal or Zero population growth Are experiencing income  Lite report said. Without new land to plow raising food production by modern seeds fertilizers irrigation and equipment i t not easy. It thus comes As no Surprise that per capita Grain production is declining in some 40 developing  when his happens Iri an agrarian society it is usually Only a matter of Lime until it translates into a decline in per capita income and into the need for food imports and growing debt to pay for them. Central America shows what can Hap pen even before the first Oil Price Shock in l 7.1deforestation and soil erosion had been accelerating slowly undermining Central America s agricultural foun Dation. In effect population growth began to overwhelm the ecosystems the educational systems and the employ ment creating capacities of the National economics. In Al Salvador where in comes of inc richest one fifth of the population Are 33 times thuse of the poorest one fifth social tensions eventually burst Inlo civil  Buffalo Boozer lit Roy Miller helps Buffalo Buster Iii toss Baek a Buster supplied with Are. However when he s had Beer the big beast s Betou a refreshment. 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