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Statement on Global Life-support Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Gilbert F. White  and
Mostafa K. Tolba
Gilbert F. White
Affiliation:
Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, U.S.A.
Mostafa K. Tolba
Affiliation:
United Nations Environment Programme, P.O. Box 30554, Nairobi, Kenya.
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The time is ripe to step up and expand current efforts to understand the great interlocking systems of air, water, and minerals, that nourish the Earth. This is essential for a reliable assessment of the opportunities for enhancing food production on land and sea. Moreover, without vigorous action towards that goal, nations will be seriously handicapped in trying to cope with proven and suspected threats to ecosystems, and to human health and welfare, resulting from alterations in the cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, and related materials.

Type
Main Papers
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Summer 1979 , pp. 88
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1979

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