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"We're
heading for a world in which billions of people
do not have access to basic clean drinking water"
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Peter
Gleick
Dr Peter Gleick is the co-founder and President
of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development,
Environment and Security. A leading expert on global
environmental , security and water-resources issues,
he is an active public speaker. In the semi-arid
climate of California, 80% of water is used in agriculture.
Dr Gleick challenges the political strength of the
agricultural lobby in California and the environmental
wisdom of intensive farming of the water-hungry
crop alfalfa. |
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Professor Gyorgy Bohm
Hungarian born, Dr. Gyorgy Bohm has lived in Brazil since
1947. Specialising in experimental pathology, he founded
the Laboratory of Experimental Air Pollution at Sau Paulo
University in 1975. A report co-produced by the Laboratory,
identified that children living in cities in Mexico, India,
China, Brazil, and Iran have some of the highest health
risks from air pollution. It calls for greater regional
and international effort to combat the problem "as pollution
does not discriminate between nations". |
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Mick Kelly
Dr Mick Kelly is a climatologist at the University of
East Anglia. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications
and edits 'Tiempo', which is a bulletin on global warming
and the Third World. Dr Kelly has acted as a consultant
on a number of TV documentaries which includes the international
award winning film "Can Polar Bears Tread Water". He is
a member of the research team that produced the definitive
temperature record used in global warming detection. |
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Lori Ann Thrupp
Dr. Lori Ann Thrupp is the Director of Sustainable Agriculture
at the World Resources Institute. She views the worldwide
decline of agricultural biodiversity as the biggest global
threat to food security. Consequently, she has developed
best practice recommendations to promote this diversity.
Dr Thrupp warns, "if [changes] are not undertaken, the
world's food supply will continue to be seriously jeopardized,
and people's suffering from hunger will only worsen."
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Klaus Toepfer
An economist with a distinguished academic and political
career, Dr Klaus Toepfer is Director of the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP). He advocates that governments
and policy makers pursue an environmentally sound approach
to development "It is not a Trade versus the Environment
issue that we are faced with, rather that a sound environmental
approach is a precondition for economic growth". |
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