You can travel to Seoul in Korea and people will be wearing Benetton clothes in the same way that they are in Leeds on a Saturday morning when they are shopping. Alienation in society is increasing. We are more violent. We have major drugs problems, crime problems on the streets, the cities are less safe than they used to be. America is held up as an example by the rest of the world, by industry and the global economy as an idealised society and yet there are more murders in Los Angeles in one year than in the entire history in the twentieth century of the Irish question in Northern Ireland.
Cars are a major issue for future prospects of sustainability.
Their space has been denied. They are now confined to playing in the garden safely away from the huge lorries that rumble by at great speed. In the farming, food and agriculture areas we have got the BSE issue. Whatever one thinks about the science of it, it is a very disturbing phenomenon that these associations are starting to arise between the way in which we treat animals for our consumption and the feedback that is beginning to occur in terms of health and a disease risk for the future. Also there is the aesthetic thing.