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The Human Environment: New Challenge for the United Nations

1 June 1972

In June 1972 representatives of some 130 nations converged on Stockholm for an unprecedented meeting to seek ways of translating their concern into a global attack on the common perils menacing the environment.
Traffic congestion afflicts practically all large cities, as this rush hour jam in Bangkok illustrates. [1972]

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