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SO HOW bad a state is the world in? Bad, very bad, according to Joni Seager’s The State of the Environment Atlas (Penguin, pp 128, £10 pbk). From the overfishing of Senegal’s waters by European trawlers to the list of disappearing species to plague tender consciences, the atlas dissects the global condition. But, armed with this information, dissenters could change events.