Will Time Heal Every Wound? by Claes Bernes,
Swedish Environmental Protection
Agency, £21/SKR 320, ISBN 9162012142
BUILD a sandcastle on the beach this summer and it will be gone by the next
tide. Do the same in a desert and it could still be there in a hundred years.
Time, says Claes Bernes, is one of the most neglected dimensions of the
environment debate.
Will Time Heal Every Wound? is an invaluable study that reassesses familiar
issues from a temporal perspective. It is peppered with “before and after”
pictures. In one, a boy stands in the bottom of a newly…
