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"en.20050112.9.3-153"2
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"Mr President, the tragedy in Asia is still inconceivable for many of us. We are all in mourning, irrespective of nationality, and our sympathy grows out of this solidarity. Let us make use of this feeling of solidarity in order to choose better priorities in future.
Environmental researchers maintain that the disaster could have been avoided, if not completely then in part – with far fewer casualties and material damage – if the coral reefs and mangrove forests had been left in place. If human safety, instead of military security, had been the main priority, we should probably not have been forced to see so much death and destruction as we have now. If governments had carried out some sort of objective analysis of what threatened not only their own countries but the planet and the whole of humanity and had prepared themselves for these threats, then warning systems would have been in place and the emergency work would have been better planned.
Large and wealthy powers are prepared to conduct wars, including nuclear wars, at a couple of minutes’ notice. There is no notice or warning for poor people in Asia, however. In the meantime, the world spends grotesque sums on its war against terrorism – a small problem in terms of the number of lives lost – and on a war that, as matters now stand, merely produces more terrorism. Is no serious attention devoted to the problems of poverty and to ecological security? Let us learn our lesson one day."@en1
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