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Worthy and necessary as some of these injunctions are , it seems unfair to poor countries that they should forsake opportunities for economic growth so that problems largely caused by imprudence and profligacy in rich countries can be ...
Worthy and necessary as some of these injunctions are , it seems unfair to poor countries that they should forsake opportunities for economic growth so that problems largely caused by imprudence and profligacy in rich countries can be ...
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The problem lies , of course , in the failure of our world society to take a holistic view of the crisis of environment . In part , this is perhaps our intuitive recoil from multiple problems . We think it much better if somehow we ...
The problem lies , of course , in the failure of our world society to take a holistic view of the crisis of environment . In part , this is perhaps our intuitive recoil from multiple problems . We think it much better if somehow we ...
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Hence the insistence , essential and inescapable , that our problems in sustaining life on Earth are problems of environment and development , entwined and inseparable . WHAT is poverty ? In prosperous countries , in Europe , in North ...
Hence the insistence , essential and inescapable , that our problems in sustaining life on Earth are problems of environment and development , entwined and inseparable . WHAT is poverty ? In prosperous countries , in Europe , in North ...
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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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