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The task of two panels of senior scientists at the 1995 Third Annual World Bank Conference on Effective Financing of Environmentally Sustainable Development was to set out their views on the major environmental, resource and population issues that constitute obstacles to environmentally sustainable development in the developing nations, to outline the costs of inaction on these pressing matters and to suggest paths for all nations that would blunt the risks we face. Some people believe, and recent media coverage suggests, that the world’s senior scientific community is sharply divided on these matters. Let me assure you otherwise, it is not.
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Kendall, H.W. (2000). Meeting Population, Environment and Resource Challenges: The Costs of Inaction. In: Kendall, H.W. (eds) A Distant Light. Masters of Modern Physics, vol 0. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8507-1_21
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