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Back in 1970, the Conservative government of the day created a giant ministry to be called the Department of the Environment. It was meant to be a piece of administrative streamlining, but it was also a measure of how much our consciousness of the environment as an issue had grown. Twenty years earlier, “environment,” in the broad sense of the word, would have meant little or nothing to people. Now it is an everyday part of our vocabulary.
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Williams, M. (1986). The Environment. In: Society Today. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08845-4_13
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