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" You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. "

Gro Harlem Brundtland

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" The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition. "