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5 The former United Nations Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, has
said that ‘the next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not
politics’.
6 Oswald, J. Defence and environmental security. 1993. In Prins, G. (ed.) 1993.
Threats Without Enemies. London: Earthscan.
7 HRH the Prince of Wales, in the First Brundtland Speech, 22 April 1992,
published in Prins,Threats Without Enemies, pp. 3–14.
8 Clark, W. C. 2003. Sustainability Science: Challenges for the New Millen-
nium. An address at the official opening of the Zuckerman Institute for Con-
nective Environmental Research, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK,
4 September 2003. http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/clarkzicer
opening030904.pdf.
9 This is illustrated by the experience of the IPCC, as described on page 221.
10 From Kofi Annan,Time Magazine, 26 August 2002.
11 From a speech given by Lord John Browne in Berlin, 30 September 1997.
12 Some useful websites: Sierra Club USA, http://www.sierraclub.org/sustainable.
consumption/; Union of Concerned Scientists,www.ucsusa.org; Energy
Saving Trust, http://www.est.org.uk; Ecocongregation, http://www.encams.org;
Christian Ecology Link, http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk; John Ray Initiative,
http://www.jri.org.uk.
13 With changes in the organisation of electricity supply companies in some
countries, it is becoming possible to purchase electricity, delivered by the
national grid, from a particular generating source, see for instance for the
UK. http://www.greenelectricity.org or http://www.good-energy.co.uk.
14 See for instance Climate Care website, http://www.climatecare.org.uk.
15 Expounded in the last chapter of Gore, A. 1992.Earth in the Balance.New
York: Houghton Mifflin Company.