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Government Response to Environmental Challenges in Global Perspective (Paperback)
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Government Response to Environmental Challenges in Global Perspective (Paperback)
Series: IIAS Monographs, v. 6
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In our drive to improve human standards of living, we have
paradoxically paid scant attention to the need for clean air and
water; the impact of acid rain on agriculture, lakes and rivers;
the effect of pollutants on the ozone layer; the safe disposal of
hazardous wastes, and the relationship between population growth
and the environment. It seems that every time governments are faced
with an apparent choice between economic development and the
protection of the environment, priority is always given to the
former. Short-term plans -- dictated by canons of political
survival and expediency -- always seem to take precedence over
long-term strategies, with politicians and decision-makers deftly
relegating environmental concerns to the realm of rhetoric. This
book is an effort to better understand the problems faced by our
global ecosystems. It is also the result of the authors deep
commitment to urge both citizens and their leaders the world over
to work together for a better protection of the environment so that
our planet may be saved for the present and for future generations.
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