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Earth Summit preliminary: Prince Charles speech; Part 3 of 4ENGLAND: London: Claridge's Hotel:INTGro Harlem Bruntland (Prime Minister of Norway) introductory speech SOT- Today, the threats to our future come not so much from military aggression as from our own way of living / from tacit acceptance that poverty and destitution are facts of life, and from short-sighted abuse of resources / we may have to face into what we did when we realised what was at stake / the hole of the ozone layer will give some of us skin cancer, but it is our human nature to close our eyes to this fact and to hope that individually we may be spared / but the odds are beginning to mount against our children and grandchildren, and if global warming remains unchecked food production may suffer and droughts, storms and floods may upset our delicate production and transport systems / island states may disappear, and hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying areas will be affected / this all may happen because our generation has become too extravagent in using resources over which we have no moral monopoly / while we do our best to prevent accidents where we live, we have been unsuccessful in alleviating the silent tragedy of the poor and underprivileged / thirteen to eighteen million people, mostly children, die from hunger related diseases each year, that is the same human toll as if a hundred fully loaded 747 jets would crash each day / and still, many living in the north don't feel that the label 'rich' describes aptly their live situation / we pay our mortgages, we hope to be able to support our children through school and to a decent start in life / increasingly, many of us in the north are unemployed / many of us give generously when there is a spectacular famine or catastrophe somewhere in the world, and to varying degrees contribute to the governments international assistant programs through our taxes and duties / I am pointing to this because development is not som...