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When all the trees have been cut down
When all the animals have been hunted
When all the waters are polluted
When all the air is unsafe to breathe
Only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
Cree Saying
This Week in History:
August 31st - September 6th
Test yourself:
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What the BBC ignored:
August 31 - 1957: The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
August 31 - 1962: Formally under British rule Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
September 1 - 2011: Nazi Germany invades Poland beginning the European phase of World War II.
September 1 - 2011: Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
September 1 - 2011: In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
September 2 - 1945: Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
September 3 - 1971: Qatar becomes an independent state.
September 3 - 2016: The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally joined the Paris global climate agreement.
September 4 - 1998: Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
September 4 - 2001: Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
September 5 - 1984: Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
September 5 - 1991: The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
Would you have swapped any of the events above for any of the events chosen by the BBC?
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