America Beyond 2001 | Sustainable Development Is Possible

I. In 1992 in Rio the great riches of human creativity were on full display. Scientists displayed startlingly beautiful computer images of every square inch of the Earth—as seen from space. Artists crafted spectacular sculptures, paintings, music, graphics and films. And they all seemed more alike than different: the indigenous person and the artist, the scientist and the child, the tourist and the diplomat. All seemed to share a deeper understanding— a recognition that we are all part of something much larger than ourselves, a family related only distantly by blood but intimately by...

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