Thirty Years Ago, If You Said The Country Was Living Beyond Its Means, People Would Have Thought About Economics. Now, If You Talk About The Country, Or The Planet Living Beyond Its Means, You Think About The Environment. We Are Taking Out More Than We Are Giving Back. We Are Consuming Energy, Water, And Other Natural Resources In A Way That Is Leading To Huge And Often Irreversible Damage To The Planet. So Too Are Most Other Developed Nations. And So Too Will China And India If They Follow The Same Path Of Economic Development As Us

-David Miliband

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Thirty Years Ago, If You Said The

David Miliband

Thirty Years Ago, If You Said The Country Was Living Beyond Its Means, People Would Have Thought About Economics. Now, If You Talk About The Country, Or The Planet Living Beyond Its Means, You Think About The Environment. We Are Taking Out More Than We Are Giving Back. We Are Consuming Energy, Water, And Other Natural Resources In A Way That Is Leading To Huge And Often Irreversible Damage To The Planet. So Too Are Most Other Developed Nations. And So Too Will China And India If They Follow The Same Path Of Economic Development As Us

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The Clearest Evidence That We Are Living Beyond Environmental Means Is The Threat Of Dangerous Climate Change. The Scale Of This Threat, To Human Life And To The Natural Resources And Assets On Which It Depends, For Everything From Oxygen And Clean Water To Healthy Soils And Flood Defence, Means That This Simply Must Be Our Top Priority

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