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Human Aspirations, Environmental Care, and the Much-needed World Decade of the Biosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1982

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* All, i.e. globally, dominating

Thus, for example, even before its launching (probably with a 2-pages' Declaration on Environment Day [June 5th] this year), the project has been strongly endorsed by world bodies, while two particularly pertinent organizations in North America, namely the National Science Teachers Association and the National Association for Environmental Education have, without prompting from us but to our great gratification, set up special committees to support the Decade, and, in the latter case, is contemplating making it the main theme of their next international conference (in Canada in 1984).

SCOPE = Scientific Committee On Problems of the Environment of the International Council of Scientific Unions, which in several respects is the world's scientific ‘Summit’.

UNEP = United Nations Environment Programme.

* NGOs = Non-Governmental Organizations, or, as we prefer to call the international ones nowadays, ‘INGOs’.