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Is there a danger that critiques of mainstream concepts of sustainable development might 'throw out the baby with the bath water'? How might this danger be averted, in your view?
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Is there a danger that critiques of mainstream concepts of sustainable development might 'throw out the baby with the bath water'? How might this danger be averted, in your view? I. Introduction: Having the misfortune to discover black nasal mucus on your handkerchief at the end of a day out in London is not exclusive to 2003, in fact it would have been considerably worse in 1893. London today is a far greener and more pleasant place to live than it was 100 years ago, when the Industrial Revolution brought with it new and unprecedented health risks caused by air and water pollution. Today, clean air legislation has rendered much of this pollution invisible (apart from the handkerchief problem), the principle emitters of polluting gases are now cars, not factories, and Ken Livingstone got his congestion charge so with any luck cars are on their way out too. However, science is telling us...
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