mptions, trying to imagine what would be the future of our world. (Припущення). Of the big projects that we did with some of our kids was to look more carefully at the relationship between humankind and the planet. (Людство). Of Green politics aim to protect both the renewable resources, such as clean air and water and the non-renewable ones: oil and gas. (Заповнюємо і невосполняемие ресурси). Believe that the only way we can increase human wealth is by producing more and consuming more. (Підвищити/збільшити/... витрачати/споживати). Arms build-up has reached really immoral levels. (Гонка озброєнь). The other side of the coin the alternative we re can put across to materialism is an increasing awareness of the spiritual values. (Інша сторона медалі/усвідомлення/духовні цінності) В».
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В«An interview with Jonathon PorritВ» - Interviewer - Jonathon Porrit-В«Could I ask you please, how did your interest in the environment, and the need to protect it, begin? -В« It really all began because I was a teacher, and teaching in an inner London comprehensive school near Shepherd s Bush, and obviously a lot of the work we were doing were ... was making assumptions about the shape of the future, and the world into which those children would have to go out, after they d finished their five years schooling. And I became more and more involved in trying to think what the shape of the planet would be like after the year two thousand, and one of the big projects that we did with some of our kids was to look more carefully at the relationship between humankind and the planet. And that got me interested in the whole subject, and I started reading much more about ecology. And then I began to realize that you can t really talk about ecology as a science, you have to consider ecology within a social and political context. And that s what drew me into Green politics. I became increasingly involved in several organizations, tried to wrap my ... mind more and more around the economics of the issues, as that s really the key to it all, and eventually ended up with Friends of the Earth , as ... as director В». -В« I see. When you look into the future, the next thirty years, a reasonably long term, you perhaps see reasons to be both optimistic and pessimistic. What changes and developments do you think we might see over the next thirty years? В»-В« It is very hard to predict - it has to be said - and I do feel a strange mixture of pessimism and optimism. I call myself a constructiv...
