The seventh age of freshwater conservation—a triumph of hope over experience?

✍ Scribed by Brian Moss

• Book ID: 101278250
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 56 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1052-7613
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0755(199911/12)9:6<639::aid-aqc376>3.0.co;2-u

✦ Synopsis

beyond the point of sustainability; they would otherwise not be showing the symptoms of acidification, eutrophication, floodplain obliteration, severe engineering, toxic pollution and devastation by exotic species. Expanding economies and sustainability are mutually incompatible concepts. So much for the assumptions; how has the play brought us therefore to this? What will be the post-millennial scene?

THE 1940s

'At first the infant,/Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms', William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene vii.