Melbourne Communique

The chemical industry can be one of the leaders of the sustainable post-industrial age if the following challenge issued from The Institution of Chemical Engineers, IChemE (Melbourne Communique, 2001) is met. 

The Melbourne Communique, announced during the 6th World Congress and supported by 20 societies, equally clearly follows a Social Contract Model, for example ... 

The Silent Spring was a seminal book in the development of the environmental consciousness which is one of the threads leading to the concept of sustainable development espoused by the London and Melbourne communiques. Another seminal work, referred to by several speakers at the 6th World Congress, was The Limits to Growth — the first report of the Club of Rome. If we concentrate on the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of the predichons in the book we miss its principal message that exponential growth in use of resources and environmental emissions is unsustainable. 

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