More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.
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You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
For too long, the world has been focused on short-term growth and development at the expense of our long-term survival as we have depleted our natural resources at historically reckless rates.
One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.
Societies are not sustainable without institutions.
If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.
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