Letter to the Editor from Prof Peter Newman

[Editor’s note: Professor Peter Newman is a Member of The LEAD Group’s Technical

Advisory Board; Coordinating Lead Author for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on

Climate Change (IPCC) on Transport; Professor Of Sustainability, Faculty of Media,

Society & Culture, Curtin University & retired from Institute for Science and Technology

Policy (ISTP)]

Re: LANv21n3 “Celebrating the End of the Leaded Petrol Era" - is online

Wow! Well done Elizabeth. This is momentous and so hard over so many years. It

will last forever like a diamond. See my attached slides showing how cities are made

out of diamonds! This is your beautiful gift to the world along with a lot of people

who helped find it, clean it and shape it into a legacy jewel for everyone. Sorry to be

so carried away. I started with this in the late 70’s and wrote a paper in 1980 in the

UK where it was being discussed in great detail, which radicalised me from there on.

You were the great leader that we needed though. Now we can say that it has gone

just before petrol disappears altogether. What a crazy world that enables such bitter

sweetness.

Peter Newman

August 31, 2021

“City of Diamonds” slide from:

Theology of Sustainability Practice:

How Cities Create Hope [SLIDES], by

Professor Peter Newman AO,

Professor of Sustainability, Curtin

University, St Pauls Anglican Church.