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Toxic China?
Western critics cite China's environmental record as an excuse for attacking economic growth.
Kirk Leech,
spiked, 7 March 2006
Earth is too crowded for Utopia
If the size of the human "footprint" is taken to be a serious problem then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed.
Professor Chris Rapley,
BBC News, 5 January 2006
What do we want from science?
Science has been devalued and dethroned. It has lost its unique role for the human species in delivering knowledge to transform and develop our status on planet earth
Thomas Deichmann,
Battles in Print, 2005
China: threat or opportunity?
The rise of China could be good for the West, if only it would rise to the challenge.
Sheila Lewis,
spiked, 13 October 2005
The dangers of climate change
Outgoing Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Professor Chris Rapley, discusses the scientific evidence linking warming in the Antarctic peninsula to human activity
Professor Chris Rapley,
Global Public Media, 22 June 2005
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