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PROCLAMATION 1
• The global community now faces extraordinary challenges such as global
health issues, food and water shortages, and economic struggles.
• All people, regardless of race, gender, income, or geography have a right to =
a healthy, sustainable environment as well as economic growth and t
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• Achieving a green economy will require cooperation across all sectors of,
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• All of us, as caretakers of our planet, and have an obligation to combat
a climate change and enviromnental degradation to preserve the Earth's
beauty as well as its resources.
• This obligation extends not only to today's caretakers but also to the future generations of caretakers who will inherit our planet from X15.
7 • The City of Ashland is committed to building on this success and dedicated
to inspiring global action trough local activism and global environmental ~ "consciousness though local awareness.
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? NOW, TIIEREFORE, the Mayor, on behalf of the citizens of Ashland. do
~i hereby proclaim April 22, 2016, as j
EARTH DAY 2016
Dated this 19th day of April, 2016
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