... international meeting on how human activities were harming the environment and putting humans at risk. In addition, the 1980 World Conservation Strategy first promoted the idea that environmental protection in the self-interest of the human species. Progress on developing the concepts of sustainable development has been rapid since the 1980s. In 1987, the UN-sponsored Brundtland Commission released "Our Common Future ... that we will need an area the size of three earths to contain all of human activities, by 2050. The public awareness of the seriousness of the environmental problems was ...

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