47 Too high a price?

Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, over- industrialized planet.

When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish: dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it.

We keep trying all four methods, but the sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.

Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet.

The need to produce ever- increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution.

Industrialized farming methods produce cheap meat products: beef, pork and chicken.