When our descendants look back at the last part of the 20th century, and now at the beginning of the 21st, we want them to be able to say: "That's when they began to take the degradation of the natural environment, with its threats to hu¬man life and the life of the planet, seriously." Furthermore, we would like them to be able to see that around this time we took serious steps to halt and rev…
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