The Ecologist

Vol. 1 No. 18 December 1971

Editorial We are all addicts 3

Richard Thompson Coon

Graham Baines

Robert Jaulin

Peter Smith

Neiton Pilpel

John Lambert

Science News

Nicholas Gould

Lawrence D. Hills

Edward Goldsmith

Sean Gallagher

Feature articles

The Anglesey story extended 4

Nuclear games in the South Pacific 9

Ethnocide. The theory and practice of cultural murder 12

Japan: economic dream ecological nightmare 16

Structure of the soil under stress 20

Reports

Rhine pollution 24

What future for the auto ? 27

Columns

Gulliver in Automobilia. In which the Author treats of war, its pretexts and methods 29

Down to earth. Paper tigers 30

Towards a unified science. The disintegration of pre-Islamic society in North Arabia 31

Friends of the Earth Newsletter . 33

Books

Feedback

3 4

3 8

Letters 40

Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith; Deputy Editor: Robert Allen; Associate editors: Michael Allaby, Peter Bunyard, John Day oil, Lawrence D. Hills, Brian Johnson, S. G. Lawrence, Jean Liedloff, Charles Maclean, Robert Waller. Production and design by The Soil Association. Administration: Joyce Robson. Editorial copy and advertising enquiries should be sent 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 OAH and distributed by the Hachette Group, Continental Publishers and Distributors Ltd., 4 Regent Place, London W1R 6BH; Telephone: 01-734 5259; Telegrams:AglibrairiLondonWl; Telex 25114. Subscriptions to: The Ecologist, 73 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Printed by The Garden City Press Ltd., Pixmore Avenue, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 US.