Shambles....There is the contradiction.

Given the widespread damage to the global environment expected from the rise of China and India, the prospect of Africa becoming industrialised would not sit well with Bob Geldorfs' environmental leanings.

It is clear to me that we live a more and more "unnatural" and unsustainable lifestyle and the more simplistic, or easily manipulated among us expect to see that lifestyle replicated all over the planet.

The key to all this is long term, and involves care for the natural systems which support us, and not providing the means to attack these systems ......Ake