"Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight."
"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."
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Source: Ban Ki-moon's Press Conference on Rio+20, www.un.org. June 6, 2012.
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