The Human Environment

The strategy which comes most readily to mind is the global or comprehensive approach.Both from a scientific and organizational viewpoint this makes the best sense.The collection and interpretation of data, and the effectiveness of measures of regulation, are better managed within a pattern which is comprehensive and integral.But a thoroughgoing global approach has implications which need to be considered.The logic of creating a pathology of conservation, environmental control in general, and population management involves major issues concerning the sufficiency of the system of international relations we have.A well-reasoned case can be made for saying that the existing system cannot cope and also for saying that the system we have is positively well-suited to the creation of waste and over-consumption in certain zones of the world, a process dignified by the term "economic development" and buttressed by sermons to the havenots about restraint in general and population control in particular.If we tackle the environment agenda realistically, then, it should extend to population studies and problems of conservation of all resources: but these items lead on inexorably to sharp political issues relating to appropriate sharing of resources and decisions on priorities.Thus the global approach may take on a fundamentalist form and there is the risk of frightening governments and others without any compensating advance.We have to accept that the present state system and stock of available types of international institution will continue in the foreseeable future and, therefore, have to be reckoned with.We have to make advances without raising too many issues at once.The best form of comprehensive approach would seem to be to combine specialized responses with certain agencies responsible for co-ordination: and so to have a general strategy which permits sensitive reactions to special problems and local developments.There is a rather different issue of strategy.The present drive is toward the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.In order to establish the importance of an issue, a suitable category or institution is employed

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