The Issues

Do any of the above activities promote our health and well being? Do they help to promote our tourism and fishing industry? Do they promote our economic future? Will they help make our area the best place to live in the United States?

The International Joint Commission (IJC) and the 21st Century
Response of the IJC to a Request by the Governments of Canada and the United States for Proposals on How To Best Assist Them to Meet the Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century.
"In recent years, in region after region, we have found that our diplomacy has been influenced by success or failure in managing the environment. This shouldn't surprise us. After all, competition for scarce resources is an ancient source of human conflict. In our day, it can still elevate tensions among countries or cause ruinous violence within them.... By definition the global environment deeply affects our own people."
Madeleine Albright
Press Remarks on Earth Day
April 22, 1997

"Environmental degradation and resource scarcity are the underside of globalization. They are threats to human security that respect no boundaries. Faced with this kind of threat, the old approaches will not be sufficient. And finding new approaches will not be easy or non-controversial. But we have substantial assets and skills to bring to bear on the problems.... And we have the strongest reasons possible to get our answers right: the future of our children, and of our children's children."
Lloyd Axworthy Address on Sustainable Development
April 17, 1997

For entire report go to: http://www.ijc.org/php/publications/html/21ste.htm

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