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- Ward was a thinker
- ahead of her time.
- She brought the
- attention of the
- world to the fact
- that the real
- planetary divide
- is not between
- East and West
- but between the
- rich North and
- the poor South
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- As a result of her
- work as an advisor
- to developing
- countries, Ward
- began to realise
- the destructive
- impact mankind
- was having on the
- environment. She
- became a beacon
- of hope for the
- first serious
- environmentalists,
- who were regarded
- by most people
- as eccentrics
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- Ward was the
- first woman to
- become Schweitzer
- Professor of Inter-
- national Economic
- Development at
- Columbia. At the
- time she was a
- Papal advisor, and
- had advised both
- presidents Kennedy
- and Johnson on
- economic affairs
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- Just in time for
- the1972 UN
- conference on
- the environment,
- one of Ward's most
- enduring works,
- Only One Earth,
- was published.
- Her gift for putting
- complex issues
- in simple language
- boosted global
- awareness of the
- key environ-
- mental issues
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- Shortly before her
- death, Ward wrote
- a pamphlet for the
- Roman Catholic
- Church in England
- which argued that
- international
- economics and
- environmentalism
- shared the common
- thread of the need
- for a more moral
- approach by rich
- nations to the
- poorer ones
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- An academic high-
- flier, Ward also
- attracted popular
- audiences with
- appearances on
- BBC radio during
- the second world
- war and after. It
- was the war which
- had persuaded her
- of the need to
- place morality at
- the heart of inter-
- national affairs,
- an approach which
- was to charac-
- terise her work
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