The Ecologist
Vol. 1. No 5 November 1970
Editorial
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John Aspinall
Lawrence D Hills
LJ & A Milnes
Edward Goldsmith
Jimoh Fadaka
Lawrence D Hills
Wayne Davis
Arthur Puffett
Feature articles
Living with gorillas social behaviour of one of man's closest relatives
Fertility or pollution ? a plan for ensuring soil fertility and clean rivers
A land in balance disruption of the Great Plains' ecology
Can science be reformed? the argument for unified science
Does Nigeria exist? diverse cultures and the nation state
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Reports
* Taken for granted' ".. . and not a drop to drink * War in the swamps of the Nile " Agriculture, forestry and land management.
Comments
A servant of humanity • Cultural adaptation in non-human animals • Five days— ecofiction * The study of government" Paradise Lost * Another Paradise Lost
Feedback
Waiting for evidence * Junk drunk • Oil drain • Charles' last laugh * Dangerous dining • Gained on the roundabout . . . and lost on the swings " Clean air car race * Priorities • Scrap the superjet * Cost of the clean up * Pollution bonds * Meat-packers lament * Fur seal protest • Canada protects her coasts' The coming cold * Blackouts * Cadmium • Exploded dream * Clean cars * Dawning of the age of Cancer • Venice • Anti-pollution gets teeth * Responsibility of scientists * Successful can disposal operation in California # Fountain of health no longer * Fined a million * Baby boom to bring 9m more • Children in flats suffer
Columns
Down to Earth give up smoking bonfires
Gargoyle the next depression
Ecotechnics meaningful start by ALCOA
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Books
Key book: Already too many—The optimum population for Britain • Mugs of the world unite—Technopolis ' Too much of a bad thing—Nitrate in soil, plants and animals.
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Letters
Coming events
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Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith; Assistant editor: Robert Allen; Managing editor: Brian W. W. Welsh; Associate editors: Michael Allaby, Francis Arnold, Peter Bunyard, Jean Liedloff; Art and Production direction: Goodwin Sorrell; Staff Writer: Charles Maclean. Advertising manager: Anne Glanfield. Editorial copy and enquiries should be addressed to The Editor, The Ecologist, 73 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Telephone: 01-948 0690 and 01-940 8556.
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