In this issue
No. 157 March 1986

LettersUpdate

AFFLUENCE AND EFFLUENCE
Profit-and-loss accounts seldom take note of what is taken from the environment, or the expense of clearing it up. And this, argues Dexter Tiranti, can cost the earth.

Does your country love you? The facts

Economic growth and Mother Nature
Jonathon Porritt attacks the ideology of growth at the centre of the pollution problem in both the West and the Third World.

Not in my backyard
Disposing of trash is not as easy as it seems. Troth Wells looks at the way it can boomerang.

Pollution and politics
Your guide to the politicians' stand on pollution, and the environmental activists' stand on politics.

S.O.S. for the E.P.A.
The Environmental Protection Agency in Washington DC is in danger of being swamped by a tidal wave of toxic chemicals and Reagan-inspired hatred of bureaucratic meddling. Eric Draper reports.

On the brink
Pollution affects some more than others. Reports from Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Indonesia, the US and the Pacific Islands on how the poor bear the brunt of the problem.

Polychlorinated biphenyls
Today's tar baby, a synthetic chemical compound which just won't go away.

Living cheek by jowl with toxic waste
Victims of American hazardous-waste sites are prisoners, but they are fighting to escape.

Fouling the nest
How filth is dumped on you, and how you do it to others.

The bottle bank con trick
Bottle banks are springing up at British shopping centres. Jon Vogler looks askance at this recycling, contrasting it with the re-use of bottles in the Philippines.

Over to you
Campaigning groups working to clean up the planet.

BooksCountry Profile: GuyanaFront cover: Hector Cattolica