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As nitrogen - dioxide emissions go down , we become more aware of carbon dioxide . As lead goes down , we become aware of particulates . Thus several other measures are going to be needed to reduce air pollution .
As nitrogen - dioxide emissions go down , we become more aware of carbon dioxide . As lead goes down , we become aware of particulates . Thus several other measures are going to be needed to reduce air pollution .
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we have lived for so long in separate communities that we find it hard to recognize the respects in which we have become one world and to admit the need to act as its members . Over the millennia our separatism fed on differences of ...
we have lived for so long in separate communities that we find it hard to recognize the respects in which we have become one world and to admit the need to act as its members . Over the millennia our separatism fed on differences of ...
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The world will have become more , not less , unequal . Such extrapolations are , of course , not the whole story . They do not allow , for example , for the combined assault of greatly ...
The world will have become more , not less , unequal . Such extrapolations are , of course , not the whole story . They do not allow , for example , for the combined assault of greatly ...
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| Title | Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for Survival |
| Author | S. S. Ramphal |
| Publisher | Lime Tree, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0413455815, 9780413455819 |
| Length | 291 pages |
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