by Jeffrey D. Sachs
NEW YORK – A half-century ago, John F. Kennedy observed that, “man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.” Those words speak to us today with special urgency.
Our generation
can indeed end the ancient scourge of extreme poverty. Yet it can also destroy
the earth’s life-support system through human-induced environmental
devastation.
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