F: So, Jonathan Scott, you’re the director of “Friends of the Earth”, is that right?
M: That’s right. Have been for three years.
F: And what exactly is “Friends of the Earth”?
M: It’s a campaigning pressure group, dealing with a whole series of environmental issues. Some of those are international issues, such as the protection of the rain forests or acid rain, Some are to do with national concerns, such as planning policy or protection of the countryside, a lot of the things that we're involved in are to do with people’s ordinary backyard environment, as it were, small-scale things like what the individual can do on recycling, or just improving the quality of their own environment. So it covers a wide range of different issues, all the way down from — all the way up, if you like, from the very small personal concerns right through to the biggest international issues.
F: About big international issues, what do you see as the most important environmental issues of the moment?