Factoid/2005/02/24
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Natural Coastlines Helped Protect Against Tsunami's Wrath
- "Those coastlines with intact coral reefs, mangroves, vegetated dunes and robust coastal forests came off better than those degraded by pollution and insensitive land use... So the environment is not a luxury ... It is an economically important insurance policy whose wisdom we ignore at our peril." - quote from U.N. environment agency Executive Director Klaus Toepfer; quote appeared in the article at http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=7186
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