“IF THE 20th century was the era of the engineer, the 21st century is going to be the era of the environmentalist.” This is the stark prediction of Nick Reeves, head of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management. If he is right, environmental scientists will have their work cut out in the coming decades. “The pressure is really on the science community to develop the technofix solutions we’re going to need,” he says.
Air and water pollution, mountains of waste, loss of biodiversity, climate change – it’s an intimidating list of problems to fix. So what are the…
