Instead the new document speaks more realistically of the need to «
balance and harmonize» competing interests, including
balancing «economic progress with the
flourishing of
ecological systems.»
Long before the advent of agriculture, hunter - gatherers began putting down roots in the Middle East, building more permanent homes and altering the
ecological balance in ways that allowed the common house mouse to
flourish, new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates.