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UN Secretary General stresses we must kick carbon habit, comparing dependence on fossil fuels to addiction in message for world environment day 2008

by Patrick

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s message for World Environment Day 2008, to be observed on 5 June:
 
Addiction is a terrible thing. It consumes and controls us, makes us deny important truths and blinds us to the consequences of our actions. Our world is in the grip of a dangerous carbon habit.
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