Earth forum hears dire warnings of environmental collapse
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The cataclysmic consequences of unsustainable development pose a challenge to the world that will make the war on terror seem like an unnecessary distraction, a global environmental conference heard.
In a keynote speech opening the fourth biennial State of the Planet conference at New York's Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs, director of the UN Millennium Project, said ignorance, misplaced priorities and indifference were keeping the world firmly on a path to disaster.
"Everything we think is at the core of our geopolitics -- the war on terror, Islamic fundamentalism -- have almost nothing to do with the real challenges we face on this planet," Sachs said.
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