Our Country, The Planet

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Economic Development/World Affairs
With Our Country, The Planet, Shridrath Ramphal gives the world something it has lacked: a wide-ranging discussion of the global environmental crisis that accounts for the positions and perceptions of both developed and developing nations. As president of the World Conservation Union, former secretary-general of the British Commonwealth, and the only person to have served on all five independent international commissions on global issues, including the Brandt Independent Commission on International Development Issues and the Brundtland Commission on Environment and Development, Ramphal possesses a unique perspective and deep understanding of both development and the environment.
Rich and poor countries have contributed unequally to the environmental crisis, explains Ramphal. This, along with their markedly different economic capacities, has led them to view the crisis differently, which in turn has prevented them from working together in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Economic Development/World Affairs
With Our Country, The Planet, Shridrath Ramphal gives the world something it has lacked: a wide-ranging discussion of the global environmental crisis that accounts for the positions and perceptions of both developed and developing nations. As president of the World Conservation Union, former secretary-general of the British Commonwealth, and the only person to have served on all five independent international commissions on global issues, including the Brandt Independent Commission on International Development Issues and the Brundtland Commission on Environment and Development, Ramphal possesses a unique perspective and deep understanding of both development and the environment.
Rich and poor countries have contributed unequally to the environmental crisis, explains Ramphal. This, along with their markedly different economic capacities, has led them to view the crisis differently, which in turn has prevented them from working together in seeking solutions to the underlying problems. Ramphal looks at what has impeded cooperation in the past and presents the case for what must be done to foster it in the future.
Ramphal argues that global problems require global solutions. To see the planet as our country is the first step to survival.
"This book is impressive in its sweep, its depth, and the universal embrace of its compassion. It was written, moreover, with real eloquence.The reader who is not stirred to seek action must be one of those whom not even r\/lark Antony could have moved."
Elliott L. Richardson, former chairman of the United Nations Association of the United States of America
"Sir Sriridath Ramphal's book sums it all up. Unless industrialized and developing countries join forces in a new, more equitable international cooperation to save our endangered planet, we will all be in grave peril."
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway
The cover art, titled Last Turn-Your Turn, is by the
celebrated artist Robert Rauschenberg. Incorporated in the work is part of the worldwide
pledge adopted by the UN "Earth Summit" Conference on Environment and Development.
Cover design by Mil<e Fender
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