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If we compress geologic time from billions of years to a more readily grasped span , for example a century , we can think of our planet as a garden one hundred years in the making . Ninety - two years to be precise , if we take the ...
If we compress geologic time from billions of years to a more readily grasped span , for example a century , we can think of our planet as a garden one hundred years in the making . Ninety - two years to be precise , if we take the ...
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But the notion of my country , the planet , was different ; it looked not only beyond countries but even beyond people . It looked in fact to our earthly habitation and the whole of creation , with new insights of a planetary order ...
But the notion of my country , the planet , was different ; it looked not only beyond countries but even beyond people . It looked in fact to our earthly habitation and the whole of creation , with new insights of a planetary order ...
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Astronauts have seen how meaningless our national borders are in cosmic terms — mere markings on turf that have nothing to do with the biosphere , frail partitions in our single planetary home . We allow these lines drawn on the planet ...
Astronauts have seen how meaningless our national borders are in cosmic terms — mere markings on turf that have nothing to do with the biosphere , frail partitions in our single planetary home . We allow these lines drawn on the planet ...
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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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