Environment and Development

Abstract

Since the Second World War, the world has faced two major crises of global proportion (not counting the threat of nuclear war). One was the energy crisis of the 1970s which forced the industrialised nations to take various steps to reduce the possibility of a recurrence of such a crisis. One by-product of this crisis was NIEO, which has been referred to in Chapter 1. The other, potentially calamitous, crisis is the survival of our planet earth. It is the environmental crisis which has brought people of the North and South together because they are all concerned about the fate of their earth (although they may differ about the plan of action to save it).