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  • For too long we have tried to consume our
    way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted
    lands and oceans, climate change, growing
    scarcity of resources from food to land to fresh
    water, rampant inequality. We need to invent a
    new model; a model that offers growth and social inclusion... that is more respectful of the
    planet's finite resources. Nature has been kind
    to human beings, but we have not been kind to
    nature.

    Ban Ki-moon's Press Conference on Rio+20, www.un.org. June 6, 2012.
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