This would mean that we have installed immediate safeguards around biodiversity as well as made substantive progress in mainstreaming biodiversity into governmental and societal decision making, thereby taking us off the course of catastrophic destruction and on a course of sustainability.

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He questions whether the Founding Fathers would have welcomed the idea of people taking up arms against their newly hatched constitutional government instead of using governmental procedure to settle differences, which sometimes is referred to as the "ballots vs. bullets" debate.

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