Policy Documents

Business and the Environment: Is There More to the Story?

Jane S. Shaw –
January 1, 2005

"If there were an intenational tribunal that prosecuted crimes across the planet, like the one in The Hague that deals with crimes against humanity, what is happening on the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee would undoubtedly by indictable ... about 200,000 acres on this tableland have already been clearcut by the paper industry, and the cutting continues" (Shoumatoff, 2003, p.15).