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It's still the same was "Only One Earth". Earth - we're just talking about it at another location. Habitat does not stand alone as an isolated ence. The fact of blackened Swedish mountain family. conference on special issues. Tt is but one in an snowcaps, ca;,sed by the industrial smokes of the Stockholm exposed the roots of our environ­ ongoingseries of specialU.N. conferences that only German Ruhr Valley, was deemed our of context. mental interconnectedness, and that short-term_, beginto approach the big problemsof this planet. Sovereign boundaries absolute, my effluents in dirty technological, economic gain is at the price of Habitat was created at the U.N. Confe(.enceon your rivers was your problem and my profit. today's health and tomorrow's· wealth. the Human Environment at Stoclcholm, Sweden in Out of Stockholm came yef another 109 well­ Bucharest reiterated the harsh economic reality, June of 1972. It was in Stockholm that the inter· intentioned resolutions, the establishment of a 1ha1 there is a direct connection between economic connectedness of all our problems began to be U.N. environment office and an earthwatch opportunity and the rate of population growth. recognized. program to monitor the extent of pollution. The doctor or the ecologist--human body and What really starred ar Stockholm, though, was planet body--<anattest to the interrelationships of the Forum. The people went north 10 Sweden out all the parts and functions that work together to of common concerns for the land, for the seas, for maintaip the dynamic whole human being, whole the air, for all that gives us life.There was bickering ecosystem. We are late in applying these natural and some political infightingat the Stockholm Envi­ laws 10 the sad state of our human affain. ronment Forum. Such is the tempering of human Looking back at the major U.N. special ses­ nature, a necessary processin our evolution. sions on environment, population, food, women, But much more importantly, 'ecosystem', 'bio­ the seas, some of us are beginning to recognize sphere', 'planetship' were words that held great I\ vt1lid libmry rnrd connectingthreads-a continuity. import, that demanded a natural loyalty, that fi-0111 1111y br1111ch of these When this continuity, this 'in-commonness', carried their spirit into the official sessions and onto becomesbetter understoodby more of us, only then the floor of the World Government House. JOIN111 e111berst- ENJOY of !lie 7 willall these meetings begin to have an actual effect upon thehuman condition. POPULATION The U.N. met again in special session, this time ENVIRONMENT behind that tired old iron curtain, to sir down and of British Columbia -Canada The Stockholm Conference of June '72 was the consider the booming billions of babies, and just first'popular' session of the U.N., where unelected what to do aboJt it all. The NGO Forum at Buch­ Greateri<•1// rnlil/r )l()lf Vancouver/1 1 /mrn>u1 booh from everyday people could have an influence upon arest wasn't quire as free·w�eeling as at Stockholm, Library- 11111/ 1tsc 1hr i11for111alio1111/ Federation :.rruiccs of - World Government deliberations. as can be readily understood. ,1/l lm1111/r,:� of 111/ st'UCll li/m,rh•s While the form�I U.N. session met in Stock­ Meanwhile, the 'Third World', all those colonial­ holm's specially-renovated Old Parliament and in ized and well-tapped 'underdeveloped' nations, e BURNABY PUBLIC LIBRARY the new Swedish parliament buildings, an 'unoffi­ were beginning 10 wake up to their numbers and e NEW WESTMINSTER cial' 'parallel' 'alternative' gathering continued place within the whole. Where the West was PUBLI C LIBRARY alongside. looking for be11er pills and growth policies, some e NORTH VANCOUVER CITY LIBRARY Sensitive planetary citizens, many of whom got Third World nations did not even agree that there e NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT to Stockholm on their own personal resources, deli­ is a population problem, but saw the issue as a PUBLIC LIBRARY berated, discussed, debated amongst themselves. capitalistic plot to keep them repressed. e PORT MOODY PUBLIC LIBRARY And here is where a precedent was set. NGO ini­ If anything has come our of Bucharest, it is the e VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY tiative from the Forum at Stockholm brought two realization that poverty does nor--of itself--breed e WEST VANCOUVER s pecific resolutions onto the U.N. roster; ban babies. Ir is true that rhe poor in poor countries MEMORIAL LIBRARY nuclear resting; stop taking whales. The U.N. will make lots of children so that some can survive