Vol. 2 No. 10 October 1972

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Editorial The priesthood of industrial society

Robert Allen

Graham Searle

Michael Allaby

Feature articles

Can Stockholm survive New York?

Telling whoppers

A Blueprint applied

Charles C. Hughes and John M. Hunter Development and disease in Africa

John Powles

The medicine of industrial man

Michael Allaby

Nick Brown

Reports

A law for organic farmers

Student action

Classified advertisements

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Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith; Deputy Editor: Robert Allen; Managing Editor: Michael Allaby; Associate editors: Peter Bunyard, John Davoll, Jimoh Omo Fadaka, Gerald Foley, Lawrence D. Hills, Brian Johnson, S. G. Lawrence, Jean Liedloff, Charles Maclean, John Papworth, Robert Waller: Production and design by The Soil Association. Administration: Joyce Robson. Editorial copy and advertising enquiries should be sent to The Editor The Ecologist, 73 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Telephone 01-948 0690.

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