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It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to…

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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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Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening. — Yasmin Mogahed
Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than… — Colin Fletcher
The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin… — Bertrand Russell
Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular… — Edgar Friedenberg
Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real. — Brad Bird
It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert… — Lester R. Brown
The difference is no less real because it is of degree. — Benjamin Cardozo
Illusion doesn't mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and… — Frederick Lenz
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience… — Susan Sontag
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real. — Dodie Smith
Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground. — Cormac McCarthy
I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life… — Christopher Moore

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