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• We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all…
• In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some…
• Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international…
• The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the…
• The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of…
• Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…
• In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply…
• We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce…
• Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.…
• In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
• Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from…
• One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations…

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