Environmental Safety
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(A message from the Natural Resources Conservation Authority)
* People must recognize a moral obligation to care for other people and other forms of life.
* Development must provide access to resources for a dignified and healthy life - food, clean water, education, health care and freedom.
* Humankind must maintain ecological processes that keep the planet fit for life; conserve biodiversity; and use renewable resources at rates that ensure their continuing productivity.
* We must reduce our dependence on oil, gas, coal and minerals. Recycle more, use less and switch to renewable substitutes.
* Human populations and life-style must be in balance with nature's capacity. There is a limit to the impacts that the biosphere can withstand without dangerous deterioration.
* People must re-examine values and alter behaviour. Governments, industries, communities and individuals, must be persuaded to adopt an ethic for living sustainably.
* Citizen groups should be informed and empowered so they can make decisions for environmental progress.
* All societies need a foundation of information, a system of law and institutions, and consistent economic and social policies to advance. Economic incentives should be provided for industry to meet environmental standards.
* All nations stand to gain from worldwide sustainability and are threatened if they fail to attain it.