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Peter Malik Was Just a Child When he became aware that acid rain was destroying the forest surrounding his family's cabin two hours north of Prague, deep in the mountains of what was then Czechoslovakia. "The country was a disaster zone," recalls Malik, now director of NRDC's Center for Market Innovation. "The Communist government was going after cheap energy to feed its highly inefficient and declining military-industrial complex. They were strip-mining; there were coal-burning power plants everywhere. They moved entire towns to dig for the stuff. My parents were vocal about their opposition to the pollution, so I knew I was against it, even as a kid."