We asked our advisory panel of leading sustainability thinkers to predict how 2011 will shape up. Tony Juniper says that just as in 1993, in 2011 the economic downturn will force us to reconsider environmental programmes
When it comes to protecting our environment, I fear that if 2011 is to have any parallel then it might well be 1993. That year was the worst I have known. The Rio Earth Summit had been and gone. For the media and many politicians the environment had been done. It was literally last year's issue. John Major was struggling with an economic downturn and rebellions on his own not-very-green side of parliament.
As happened back then, a period of intense environmental debate is now followed by a period during which the challenges posed by sustainable development are temporarily pushed down the agenda.
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