How to save the planet

The Environment Agency has asked a panel of experts to compile the ultimate to-do list - in order of priority. Leo Hickman assesses whether they got it right

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Leo Hickman
The Guardian

Thursday November 1 2007

Just where do you start when you want to "save the planet"? And in which areas should you focus most of your efforts? In a rather brave thought experiment, the Environment Agency has assembled a group of the country's leading environmental experts to draw up a list of actions that we should all undertake if we are to try to avert the environmental horrors so often forecast if we continue with our "business as usual" lifestyles. This list contains suggestions for government, companies, councils, religious leaders, scientists and others to consider, but it also includes actions that individuals can attempt. More unusually, though, it lists the actions in order of priority.