ABSTRACT
This book is a sign of, and part of, a general intellectual concern about the relationship between man and his physical environment. At least on the periphery of politics, in the media, the universities and among administrators there was something of an ‘environment’ fashion. There may be a problem about survival, about the persistence of the eco-system. It is important to relate the ‘political’ approach to environmental problems pursued in this book to the ‘ecological’ approach. The political part of the eco-system is not mainly concerned with the possible breakdown of the system as a whole, but with more subtle changes. In fact, Fraser Darling allots a special ecological role for politics: ‘I think, indeed, that the people need to develop some yardstick for human content; to be able to measure the lesser degree of discontent and psychosomatic disease in rehabilitated environments.
