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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
In the industrialized northern hemisphere we are assaulted daily with evidence of the deteriorating quality of the human environment: Rivers are closed to fishing because of dangerous levels of contamination; the safety of important foods is challenged; the foul air that major urban areas have been forced to endure is now spreading like an inkblot into surrounding areas. Lack of early concern about the implications for the environment of the widespread application of modern technology has allowed the problem to grow rapidly into a critical domestic and international issue.
1 General Assembly Resolution 2398 (XXIII), December 3, 1968.
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6 On this point see Maurice F. Strong, Development, Environment and the New Global Imperatives: The Future of International Co-operation (Plaunt Lectures delivered at Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1971.)Google Scholar (Mimeographed.)
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