“The Turning Point Project was

formed in 1999 specifically to design and produce a series

of educational advertisements concerning the major issues

of the new millennium. The ads will appear in The New

York Times and, funds permitting, other newspapers

through spring of 2000. The issues discussed are those that

will be crucial in determining the quality of life on Earth in

the near and distant future. Despite this, they have not been

given the in-depth coverage in the major media that they

deserve.” Their list of featured issues includes the extinction crisis, genetic engineering, industrial agriculture, economic globalization, and “technomania”. Their board of directors includes the estimable Jerry Mander, whose thinking and agitating I have been influenced by since his “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television” in the ’60’s (read it if you can find it!).