Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for SurvivalLime Tree, 1992 - 291 pages |
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Page 36
... become aware of particulates . Thus several other measures are going to be needed to reduce air pollution . Some ... becomes the sulphuric acid that poisons fish in another . The countries may be neighbors ; more than half the acid rain ...
... become aware of particulates . Thus several other measures are going to be needed to reduce air pollution . Some ... becomes the sulphuric acid that poisons fish in another . The countries may be neighbors ; more than half the acid rain ...
Page 176
... become one world and to admit the need to act as its members . Over the millennia our separa- tism fed on differences of tribe and race , of language and religion , on divisions of class and on human aggrandizement and on the lust for ...
... become one world and to admit the need to act as its members . Over the millennia our separa- tism fed on differences of tribe and race , of language and religion , on divisions of class and on human aggrandizement and on the lust for ...
Page 222
... become more unequal ; it may well have become less safe and almost certainly more unsustainable for human life . THE third factor controlling our response to the environmental crisis is the new global politics . The cold war is over ...
... become more unequal ; it may well have become less safe and almost certainly more unsustainable for human life . THE third factor controlling our response to the environmental crisis is the new global politics . The cold war is over ...
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Our Country, The Planet: Forging A Partnership For Survival Shridath S. Ramphal No preview available - 1992 |
Our Country, The Planet: Forging A Partnership For Survival Shridath S. Ramphal No preview available - 1992 |
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