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Mahatma Gandhi is reputed to have said that nature can look after people’s needs; but cannot look after their greeds.

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Fairclough, A.J. (1997). The Environment: The Basic Resource. In: Soares, O.D.D., da Cruz, A.M., Pereira, G.C., Soares, I.M., Reis, A.J. (eds) Innovation and Technology — Strategies and Policies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-29606-7_1

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