Killing an idea: While worthies and woollies, cynics and charlatans prepare for Johannesburg and the World Summit on Sustainable Development at the end of the month, Jeremy Seabrook, with all the despair of Cassandra on a bad day, says that we can't have it all, that growth can't be reconciled with conservation.

'Sustainable now means what the market, not the earth, can bear; what originally meant adjusting the industrial technosphere so that it should not destroy the planet has now come to indicate the regenerative power of the economy, no matter how it may degrade the "environment".' [Guardian].

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