home for us and for those who are to come.
The failures that we need to correct arise both from poverty and from the
short-sighted way in which we have often pursued prosperity. Many parts of the
vicious downward spiral: poor people are forced to overuse
world are caught in
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environmental resources to survive from day to day, and their impoverishment of
their environment further impoverishes them, making their survival even more
difficult and uncertain. The prosperity attained in some parts of the world is often
unstable, as it has been secured through farming, forestry, and industrial practices
that bring profit and progress only over the short term.
