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brought home the reality that we are all one people facing common crises , needing common security , sharing a common future . What the overall experience of the commissions ' search for responses to pressing world problems confirmed ...
brought home the reality that we are all one people facing common crises , needing common security , sharing a common future . What the overall experience of the commissions ' search for responses to pressing world problems confirmed ...
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development crystallizes our obligations when it speaks of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . In a very real sense , we do borrow the present from the future ...
development crystallizes our obligations when it speaks of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . In a very real sense , we do borrow the present from the future ...
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The Future of Antarctica : Exploitation versus Preservation . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 1990 . Creekmore , Charles , and Daniel Stiles . Rolling Back the Desert : Ten Years after UNCOD . Nairobi : UN Environment Program ...
The Future of Antarctica : Exploitation versus Preservation . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 1990 . Creekmore , Charles , and Daniel Stiles . Rolling Back the Desert : Ten Years after UNCOD . Nairobi : UN Environment Program ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis book addresses the question: "If the development of the quarter of the world's people who are now rich has brought us all so close to the limits of sustainable living on Earth, how is the ... Read full review
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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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