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Can the Human Civilization and the Global Environment Coexist ?
HIROYUKI ISHI Professor of Graduate School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo / Special Adviser to the President of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KIYOSHI ITAO General Editor of Nature Interface

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[ITAO]

In the early 70s we used to be worried that the petroleum would be exhausted. 30 years have already passed since then, and it is not actually exhausted yet. However, I have an impression that the global environment is more diseased and severe now.

[ISHI]

Of course, non-recyclable petroleum will be exhausted one day, however, in my opinion, it will possible to use another hundreds years even if the price would be risen seriously. On the contrary, recyclable resources such as water, soil and timbers that we did believe inexhaustible at that time are now facing a crisis because the demand exceeds their regenerations. Therefore, at the present we must be conscious of preserving recyclable resources rather than non-recyclable resource.
After all, the damage of such global scale exploitation is concentrated on to the weak parts. The most vulnerable is the indigenous habitants or the minority races whose political voice is hardly heard. For example in Africa, many cases have revealed that the developed countries exploit the resource and bring the waste in.
Or it was also in the land of the indigenous people who seldom complained that the U.S., Russia, and France had carried out nuclear tests.

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