The Ecologist
Vol. 1. No 3 September 1970
Editorial 3
Feature articles
Dr Eric Albone The ailing air What are we doing to our most essential resource? 4 Francis Arnold ' Save Sabrina! Ecological research project in jeopardy 10 Jean Liedloff The supersonic albatross Concorde discord 14 Michael Allaby Green revolution: social boomerang FAO's 2nd World Food Congress 18 David Evans Should Britain be a federation ? A plan for decentralization 22
Feedback 31 Farewell guillemot and goodbye razorbill • Greetings PCBs ' Dirty sea dangers • Oil on the rising sun • Pollution makes climate change ' Smog cuts sunlight' Bonds against pollution * Black or white ecology ' Who pays the bill ? * Cigarettes = cancer = death' Smell pollution * Esso gets sulphur out " Jet pollution • The price of pumps • Ad-ding to the horror ' Norway's electric car • From plastic to dust * Mass mercury poisoning * Nonpotable drinking water ' Better off in gaol * Poor caviar • Warning light * DDT did for Cannery Row ' Light haze kills too ' Ear-service only ' Power-rationing • Freedom to breed ' Poverty before pollution ' Alaska pipeline could close • Evolution in our time
Reports 1 35 Factory farms versus factory farms * A lot of rubbish ' Not counting foreigners ' Seminar on Water pollution by oil, Aviemore, May 1970
Comments 39 Must cars take over our cities • Of ants and men * Too many • Poetry and knowledge' Scabby apples
Lawrence D. Hills
Wayne Davis
Columns
Down to earth Mrs Butler's bill
Gargoyle The fifth freedom
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Books
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Towards hope: The subversive science * Massed doom: The environmental crisis ' From prehistory to preservation: The vanishing wildlife of Britain; Wildlife preservation
Poems 25 • 34 • 42 Letters 26 Coming events 48
Editor: E R. D. Goldsmith; Assistant editor: Robert Allen; Managing editor: Brian W. W. Welsh; Contributing editors: Michael Allaby, Peter Bunyard Jean LiedlorT; Art and Production director: Ronald Gibbons, M.S.IA.D. ; Research: Charles Maclean. Photographs by Robert Baker of London Graphics' Editorial copy and enquiries should be addressed to The Editor, The Ecologist, 73 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Telephone: 01-948 0690
Published by Ecosystems Ltd registered office 11 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, London, W1M 0AH and distributed by the New English Library (Magazine Division), Barnards Inn, Holborn, London, E.C.I . Printed by the Garden City Press Ltd., Pixmore Avenue, Letchworth, Hertfordshire.
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