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and such a consensus was successfully established at the 2008 RIHN symposium.
Can such a consensus be extended to a wider, much wider constituency? Ideally, the
environmental issue needs to be supported and championed by everyone on Earth.
Sustainability of island life should be promoted in harmony with nature for the sake
of a prosperous future, and perhaps even just a future, for humankind.
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