Editorial September 3, 1990 Issue

A perpetual harvest of good

Ann Kenrick

Environmental awareness has greatly accelerated in the last few years. People of goodwill all over the world are taking seriously the warning that further profligacy of earth's natural resources could have disastrous consequences for the next generation. Many are realizing that the threat to earth's resources is not somebody else's problem but that it is everybody's concern and responsibility.

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, concern for the environment has burgeoned into an imaginative and caring movement involving millions of people. The Environmental Liaison Center in Nairobi, Kenya, reports, for example, that there is an explosion of activity all over Africa, where home-grown initiatives, often begun by women and young people, are preserving such essentials as food, firewood, and drinking water and are planting new trees and crops.^{Time, International editor, April 23, 1990 .}

These signs of individual caring, not only in Africa but in many other parts of the world, are encouraging because they indicate an awakening recognition that we all share a moral responsibility to conserve the useful and good resources that are so much needed by everyone on earth.

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