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In an earlier chapter, Sir Shridath Ramphal maintained that before sustainable development can become established as a global working principle there will have to be ‘a transformation of attitudes in some fundamental respects … a ‘recognition that we all have an obligation to future generations as well as to ourselves … ’, and a ‘need to see environmental problems in interdisciplinary terms … ’ He also argued ‘that we must think of our planet not only as a world of many states but also as the state of our one world ….’1
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David Gosling, ‘The Morality of Nuclear Power’, Theology, 81, no. 679 (January 1978) p. 27.
Sally McFague, Models of God, (London: SCM, 1987).
For further details, see David Gosling, ‘Thailand’s Bare-headed Doctors’ Modern Asian Studies, 19, no. 4 (1985) pp. 761–96; same author, ‘Visions of Salvation: A Thai Buddhist Experience of Ecumenism’, forthcoming.
Mother Mary Clare, The Simplicity of Prayer, (London: SLG Press, Fairacres Publications, 1988).
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Gosling, D. (1990). Religion and the Environment. In: Angell, D.J.R., Comer, J.D., Wilkinson, M.L.N. (eds) Sustaining Earth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21091-6_9
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