But Professor Parry said steps could be taken to help societies adapt to these impacts.
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Thank you for all you do to nurture fragile peace and help societies recover from the effects of war and destruction.
It doesn't help their societies either when they're in a constant state of unrest and attacks and problems.
They have dreams to start technology businesses and education centers to help their societies and women to advance.
Then Unep, or the UNEO, or whatever it metamorphoses into, may finally be able to make the impact envisaged in Stockholm 34 years ago, and help human societies to "...shape our actions throughout the world with a more prudent care for their environmental consequences".
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But in the detailed Committee Stage consideration last week, Luciana Berger (a Co-operative MP and Labour frontbencher) put down a series of amendments designed to help cooperatives and mutual societies offering insulation and other improvements to become players in the market, including reduced registration fees for non-profit organisations.
These rituals, as much as the deliberations inside parliaments and law courts, are what help to hold our fractious and fragile societies together.
Ms Novogratz hopes all this will help overcome cultural barriers that have held back business in some societies.
And he welcomes the recent move by the Bank of England to allow banks and building societies to swap potentially risky mortgage debts for secure government bonds to help them operate during the credit squeeze.
"As people in North Africa and the Middle East stand up and give voice to their hopes for more open and democratic societies, we have an opportunity - and I would say a responsibility - to help them, " he said.
Stereotyping does not help the good ones to work together, as they must if we are to repair the deficiencies in our societies.
In civilized societies, there is broad consent to such policies, which just recognize the moral obligation of each to help their fellow man.
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