Abstract
— Our environmental situation continues to decline faster than ever. This is demonstrated by the growing spread of pollution of water and atmospheric systems, erosion of topsoil, tropical deforestation, desertification, mass extinction of species, depletion of the ozone layer, and climatic dislocations. Why should our environmental situation continue to decline, despite a remarkable outburst of awareness on the part of the general public and its political leaders since the time of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment? The problem does not lie with inadequate effort, but rather with misdirected effort: we persist in tackling symptoms of problems, rather than problems themselves, let alone the sources of problems. We should broach these issues within a context of fast-growing interdependence among the community of nations, both economic and ecological interdependence — which presents yet more problems, but also raises many opportunities for creative action.
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