The budding environmental clean‐up (a viewpoint)

Abstract

Part I of this paper discussed the complex factors and their interaction which influence environmental changes. It focused on the extent and urgency to counteract pollution lest the future generations inherit a polluted world beset by energy, resources and food shortages, and by problems of decaying cities and economic failure.

The world‐wide concern about environmental deterioration, spurred on by public outcry, has brought about punitive action and corrective measures. There remains, however, an agonizing conflict between environmental safeguarding and economic growth, particularly acute for developing nations plagued with unemployment and financial plight. Part II deals with clean‐up costs and economic growth.