Stockholm and beyond : report.

  • United States. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.
Date:
1972
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Credit: Stockholm and beyond : report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOWARD H. BAKER, JR. TENNESSEE “Wnited DBiates Senate WASHINGTON, D.C. 20810 April 27, 1972 The Honorable William P. Rogers Secretary of State Dear Mr. Secretary: In my capacity as Chairman of your Advisory Committee on the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, it gives me great pleasure to transmit the Committee's final recommendations in the following report. This report represents the fruition of a year-long effort by the 27- member Committee to actively involve the interested public in our government's preparations for Stockholm. Our primary vehicle for soliciting this citizen input has been a series of regional public hearings conducted over the past year. The first hearing was held in Miami last July, followed by one in Washington last November, and then Six others held during March in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, Houston, and Washington. Over 300 invi- tations were sent to a broad range of interests requesting citizens to either testify at a hearing or submit written statements and over 170 people accepted our invitations. Another 300 people submitted their views in writing in lieu of an appearance at a hearing. The transcripts of the hearings as well as the written responses accompanying this report reflect the diverse sources of information which the Committee enlisted. Scientists, doctors, lawyers, labor leaders, industrialists, environmental activists, and private citizens, while differing in their strategies for mankind's survival, wholeheartedly agreed to the need for bold collec- tive action on behalf of the common environment all nations share. There was further unaminity of opinion on the sig- nificance of involving the American public in this country's domestic and foreign policy-making, especially at a time when the average citizen feels increasingly removed from the day-to-day proceedings of Government. Although I realize that we are not the first Advisory Committee to assist your