The chemical industry mobilized to deal with global upsets

The chemical industry mobilized to deal with global upsets 

Very recently, our society - indeed the whole human raee - has become aware that we have been mortgaging our eollective futures to satisfy our appetites for individual riches. Although only a few hundred millions of us on the planet shared between us the vast amount of wealth and therefore generated the vast amount of anthropic pollution, an undeniably eritieal balanee was maintained. Yet with the arrival, in the last few decades, of nearly three billion individuals - Indians, Chinese and others who, quite rightly, expect a high level of consumption, and with the projected swelhng of the world population in years to come, the international community is calhng for sustainable development, so as to be able to estabUsh a new balance, which is truly sustainable. 

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