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danger millions of people for thousands of years. In Moscow, the
general secretary of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, referred
to “Glasnost”. The French president, Franc¸ois Mitterrand, invited the
world’s chiefs of state to Paris. They celebrated the declaration of
human rights from 1789 that included the principle of sustainability
in its art. 4.
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In Paris, the politicians aimed not only for technological,
social, economic and other progress, but also set ecological goals—
especially with a view to the international conference of Rio de
Janeiro in 1992. There was an atmosphere of departure.
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