Examines some major underlying issues responsible for pervasive negative attitudes towards the 1979 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD). Cites world economy, socio-political influence in less developed countries, and the modus operandi of the United Nations as issues of importance. (MA)

Perceptions of the official and unofficial proceedings of the Stockholm conference by staff reporters and by two scientists (Berry and Ehrlich) concerning the achievements and disappointments of the attempt to establish a world organization for the preservation of environmental quality. Includes discussion of political divisions and personal…

Discusses the history of the inequality of world incomes on the basis of a four-fold classification of societies. Indicates that a zero-growth, industrial, ontological, non-destructive society is predictable in the future due to man's expansion from isolated ecosystems into one single world. (CC)