 In
this issue
No.
114 August 1982
LettersUpdateBriefly...
ASSAULT
ON THE EARTH
The global environment is under assault. Poverty in the South and over
consumption in the North are both taking their toll. Wayne Ellwood reports.
The Facts on the environment
A choice of nightmares
Richard Kazis explores the connections between jobs and cleaning ip industrial
pollution
The greeening of Europe
An introduction to eco-politics in Europe
By Diana Johnstone.
Nabobs or pariahs
Andrew Gorz looks at a possible French ‘ecotopia’
Ecology in action
Illustrated by S.B. Whitehead
Splitting the atom industry
Harvey Wasserman charts the history of the U.S. anti-nuclear movement.
A question of balance
Richard Franke and Barbara Chasin look at the relationship
between herders and farmers in the West African Sahel.
Counting the human cost
An investment analysis which takes into account the hidden costs of one
industrial project
Trash Technology
A low-technology solution to the Third World’s garbage explosion.
By Jon Vogler
Progress and Pollution
Kor Kok Wah reports on the impact of unplanned industrialization in Malaysia.
‘Rain,
rain go away…’
Industrial pollutants and ordinary rain can combine with deadly results.
Phil Weller looks at the public outcry against acid rain.
Friends of the Earth
Sylvia Collier profiles a leading group of environmental activists
Worth
Reading on... THE ENVIRONMENT
Ideas
for action
Reviews:
New books and a classicCountry
profile: South AfricaCover
photograph: FAO (colour),
Nick Hedges (black and white)
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