Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, … - Margaret Beckett

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You are all perfectly correct in your implications that we would be safer if we stayed home in our rooms. . . But we would also be duller, stupider, and, finally, sadder. If you want to avoid danger, don't get born. Once you are born, make something of it!

Margaret Beckett

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