Last year South Africa celebrated, so quietly that you might have missed it, the 10th anniversary of my book Coming Back to Earth. It was an analysis of South Africa’s and the world’s state of the environment and coincided with the World Summit in Sandton. It was, in fact, my valedictory after 30 years of specialising in the green and the brown (urban) environments.
I wrote that South Africa was no longer a rural nation – by the 1990s it had become the first and only country in Africa to move from being mostly rural to becoming urban.
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