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Separateness is also challenged by new evidence of the limits of power in relations between nations . In the nuclear age , we reached the threshold of absolute power only to find that across it lay oblivion . The ultimate sanction was ...
Separateness is also challenged by new evidence of the limits of power in relations between nations . In the nuclear age , we reached the threshold of absolute power only to find that across it lay oblivion . The ultimate sanction was ...
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He was talking of the limits of immorality within one state , among one people . It is the same with our country , the planet . More than a century after Lincoln , we have to face up to those limits in our global community and decide ...
He was talking of the limits of immorality within one state , among one people . It is the same with our country , the planet . More than a century after Lincoln , we have to face up to those limits in our global community and decide ...
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That there are limits is indubitable - limits , in particular , to Earth's carrying capacity . Earlier warnings may have been premature , but they were aimed in the right direction . Science and technology have enlarged our options and ...
That there are limits is indubitable - limits , in particular , to Earth's carrying capacity . Earlier warnings may have been premature , but they were aimed in the right direction . Science and technology have enlarged our options and ...
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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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