The UK government's chief scientist, David King, has said that “climate change is the most severe problem we are facing today—more serious even than the threat of terrorism.” Yet terrorism continues to dominate the world's news media and preoccupy the thoughts of many people. James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, recently told an audience of representatives of business and civil society groups that the environment was on the back burner of international discussions on development.

Eds A J McMichael, D H Campbell-Lendrum, C F Corvalän, K L Ebi, A K Githeko, J D Scheraga, A Woodward

World Health Organization, SFr20 (SFr14 in developing countries)/$18,

pp 322

ISBN 92 4 156248X

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It is perhaps time to be reminded of Hippocrates, suggests Tony McMichael, one …