However you look at it, either as sustainability, protection, stewardship, or just old fashioned respect, unless the overwhelming majority of us begin to take responsibility for the environment on multiple levels, we are facing the previously unthinkable, once confined to the realms of imaginative science fiction Nostradamians.
Social, environmental, political, economic and commercial, academic, professional. There will be no aspect of life on this earth that is left unharmed, from the phytoplankton to the cockroaches, once thought to be resilient enough to survive a nuclear (‘newcular’, according GW Bush Jnr.) holocaust.
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