A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World

The world stands at a crossroads. What route to the future should we take" The road to a sustainable city beckons, but what effect will this have on chemistry, which appears so dependent on fossil resources" Its products are part of everyday living, and without them we could regress to the world of earlier generations when lives were blighted by disease, famines, dirt, and pain. In fact the industries based on chemistry - the chemical, agrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries - could be ...