SO HOW bad a state is the world in? Bad, very bad, according to Joni Seager鈥檚 The State of the Environment Atlas (Penguin, pp 128, 拢10 pbk). From the overfishing of Senegal鈥檚 waters by European trawlers to the list of disappearing species to plague tender consciences, the atlas dissects the global condition. But, armed with this information, dissenters could change events.
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