March 10, 2000

We Need Preservation, Not Development

To the Editor:

Malcolm G. Scully's article on sustainable development should be viewed as a genuine contribution to discussions about environmental problems ("The Rhetoric and the Reality of 'Sustainability,'" Opinion, January 28).

During the 1980's, environmental groups in developed countries began attempts to gain support for a global environmental conference to deal with the new, very real threats to the global environment. Based on much talk by