Abstract
Introduction - making room for people. Part 1 Too many humans?: snapshot of a modern planet - busy and largely successful defusing the population bomb - fertility, famine and affluence feeding the future billions - some clues fuelling the future billions - some clues. Part 2 The consumer, the campaigners and chemophobia: the myth of ecological disaster - apocalypse not yet? aesthetics versus ecology - wind and water at war with the landscape chlorine - Devil's element or useful member of society oh for the simple life - right living, right technology. Part 3 Man, nature and development: paradise, wilderness and the nurseryworld - the worlds we have lost wilderness and the manscape - what we can really expect from the primitive facing facts in the rich world humanizing development, developing humanism.
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