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"Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us"
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Source: Carry on caravanning by Margaret Beckett, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2007.
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