ABSTRACT
Scodand’s environment is forcing author to develop her politics. The politics of environment go very much farther back than Marx or Wallace, and go very much farther ahead. World government is doubtless a desirable objective, but it can never be one single, central government dominating every citizen. It saw more clearly than its predecessors the form that cultural and economic aggression would need to take if Scotland's resources were to be quickly available to England, and is more responsible than any other party for the present appalling subser vience of the Scottish economy to external influences. Planning, of course, is needed, provided its purpose is to benefit the community as a whole. Survival in the new world is clearly demanding new political and economic systems and these can only be practically developed in small, balanced, modem communities of the sort authors have been describing.
