Did dinosaurs contribute to global warming? What is rubbish theory and what indeed is rubbish? And how did the whale become a cuddly toy? And why did we decide to saturate our land and food with pesticides? This book examines these questions and also includes a study of pollution in fiction, from the fogs of Dickens to the smog of Chandler.

Using the simple device of an exchange of faxes from across time, this book reveals to us what the future may hold.

Never before have people been so aware of the importance of sound environmental law, as every week stories of controversial planning developments and prosecutions for the release of toxic substances feature in the news. This book explains the ways that ordinary citizens can use the law to ensure the environment is protected.

Britain has an immense range of environmental law and the reputation for largely ignoring it. This book describes the story of the political growth of that law, and the pressures, the compromises, the parliamentary and civil service opportunism that allowed the edifice to grow over the greater part of a century.

In every area of life, traditional, centralized party politics has been failing and the seeds of a new form of political life are being sown. This is true in housing, health, education, consumption and transport. This book introduces various forms of communication and decision-making, and presents a programme for a sustainable politics.