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A 2030 Vision: “Fake Challenge” or Time for Action

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“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money…” – Alanis Obomsawin “an Abenaki from the Odanak reserve” – From the collection of essays published in 1972 titled “Who is the Chairman of This Meeting?”

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Dastbaz, M. (2018). A 2030 Vision: “Fake Challenge” or Time for Action. In: Dastbaz, M., Naudé, W., Manoochehri, J. (eds) Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74549-7_1

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