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Nature 434, 959 (21 April 2005) | doi:10.1038/434959a; Published online 20 April 2005
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Science and culture: Polluting utopia
Andy Meharg1
The remotest occupied island in the British Isles, the Outer Hebridean outlier Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago, has become symbolic of a utopia corrupted by modern, capitalist society. Originally a self-sufficient and self-governing community, the islanders changed their aspirations as soon as they had regular contact with outside culture in the nineteenth century.
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