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A CALL TO OUR GUIDING INSTITUTIONS
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to bring their collective experience, knowledge, and skills at persuasion and innovation into partnerships with organizations of civil society dedicated to the rights of working men and women, intercultural and interreligious understanding, social justice, ecology, and community-based economics:
to pay careful attention to corollary effects of patterns of agriculture, manufacture, investment, marketing, and distribution in light of their impact on local communities and ecological systems worldwide;
to become at once exemplars and advocates of sustainability, carefully weighing short-term economic benefits against the continued viability of the Earth's ecosystem and the constant basic needs of the whole human community:
THE CALL TO AGRICULTURE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, AND COMMERCE
to create joint structures with other guiding institutions to address more immediately and effectively the principal problems of our time, including severe ecological degradation, the deep indebtedness of poorer countries, massive unemployment, the widely unrewarded labors of women, and generations of poverty and malnutrition.
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