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Oddly perhaps, for a magazine published and produced in Canada, this magazine is most informative and interesting when writing about events in other countries. In this issue, you learn about what rescuing Chile’s economy has done to the environment and about an environmental victory in Brazil. But the articles on Canadian topics are less informative. The cover story on climactic changes is headlined “Action by Canada on climate change has been blocked by opposition both inside and outside government.” But, as potentially interesting as that sounds, what we actually get is a lot of jargon about various treaties that Canada has ignored, or not signed, or shied away from, and very little about the actual forces that dictate these policies. Similarly, a piece on co-operation between environmentalists and unionists offers mainly utopian proposals on what should be, and not on what is. (KR)

magazine, vol 24, #4, 42 pgs, $6.25, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1

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