Griffin wrote:Langley-
It wouldn't be "or" -- it would be "and"! <g> But at least you'd have company, right?
Griffin
Smirk. I was thinking Upside/downside.
The Global 2000 Report to the President Entering the Twenty First Century.
Note: This report, commissioned by President Carter, was produced by the US Council on Environmental Quality and the Department of
State. The report which dates from the mid seventies, was first printed in Great Britain in 1982 by Penguin books. The information is
presented in 3 volumes. Volume 1 is 765 pages. This volume is available from the Noarlunga Public Library. The Dewey number is
A/333.71/1HB. Vols 2 and 3 are not available from the library. The information contained with the Global 2000 report is important. It is a
source document capable of confirming
the program to implement global control.
Letter of Transmittal
The President
Sir: In your Environmental Message to the Congress of May 23 1977, you directed the Council on Environmental Quality and the
Department of State, working with other Federal Agencies, to study the " probable changes in the world's population natural resources,
and environment through the end of the century.
The effort we then undertook to project present world trends and to establish a foundation for planning is now complete, and we are
pleased to present our report to you. What emerges are not predictions but rather projections developed by the US Government Agencies of
what will happen to population, resources, and environment if present policies continue.
Our conclusions, summarised in the following pages, are disturbing. They indicate the potential for global problems of alarming proportions
by the year 2000. Environmental, resource, and population stresses are intensifying and will increasingly determine the quality of human life
on our planet. These stresses are already severe enough to deny many millions of people basic needs for food, shelter, health, and jobs, or
any hope for betterment. At the same time, the earth's carrying capacity, the ability of biological systems to provide resources for human
needs is eroding. The trends reflected in the Global 2000 Study suggest strongly a progressive degradation and impoverishment of the earth's
natural resource base.
If these trends are to be altered and the problems diminished, vigourous, determined new initiatives will be required worldwide to meet
human needs while protecting and restoring the earth's capacity to support life. Basic natural resources farmlands, fisheries, forests,
minerals, energy, air and water must be conserved and better managed. Changes in public policy are needed around the world before
problems worsen and options for effective action are reduced.
A number of responses to global resource environment, and population problemsresponses only touched on in the study are underway.
Heightened international concern is reflected in the "Megaconferences" convened by the United Nations during the
past decade. The United States has contributed actively to these conferences, proposing and supporting redemial actions of whieh many are
now being taken. We are also working with other nations bilaterally, building concern for population growth, natural resources, and
environment onto our foriegn aid programs and cooperating with our immediate neighbours on common problems ranging from clean up of
air and water pollution to preservation of soils and development of
new crops. Many nations around the world are adopting new approachesreplanting deforested areas, conserving energy, making family
planning measures widely available, using natural predators and selective pesticides to protect crops instead of broadscale destructive
application of chemicals.
Nonetheless, given the urgency, scope and complexity of the challenges before us, the efforts now underway around the world fall far short
of what is npeded. An era of unprecedented global cooperation and conmitment is essential.
The necessary changes go beyond the capability of any single nation. But our nation can itself make important and exemplary steps.
Because of our preeminent position as a producer and consumer of food and energy, our efforts to conserve soil, farmlands, and energy
resources are of global, as well as national, importance. We can avoid polluting our own environment and we must take care that we do not degrade the global environment.
Beyond our borders we can expand our collaboration with both developed and developing nations in a spirit of generosity and justice.
Hundreds of millions of the world's people are now trapped in a condition of abject poverty. People at the margin of existence must take
crop land, grazing land and fuel where they can find it, regardless of the effects upon the earth s resource base.
Sustainable economic development, coupled with environmental protection resource management, and family planning, is essential. Equally
inportant are better understanding and effective responses to such global problems as the build up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and
the threat of species loss on a massive scale.
Finally, to meet the challenges described in the Global 2000 study our federal government requires a much stronger capability to project and
analyse long term trends. The Study clearly points to the need for improving the present foundation for long term planning. On this
foundation rest decisions that involve the future welfare of the Nation.
We wish to express our thanks to and our admiration for the Director of the Global 2000 study, Dr Gerald 0. Barney and his staff. Their
diligence dedication and ability to bring forth
the best from a legion of contributors is much appreciated. Special thanks is also due to those of the Council on Environmental Quality and
the Department of State who worked closely with this study and to the 11 other agencies that contributed greatly to it (Departments of
Agriculture, Energy and the Interior, the Agency for International Development, the Energy and the Interior, the Agency for International
Development, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation,
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Offices of Science and Technology Policy.) Without the detailed Knowledge
provided by these Agencies' experts, the Global 2000 study would have been impossible.
Signed: Thomas R Pickering, Assistant Secretary, Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Department of State, and
Gus Speth, Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality.
MAJOR FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS.
If present trends continue the world in 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, and more vulnerable to disruption
than the world we live in now. Serious stresses involving population, resources, and environment are clearly visible ahead. Despite greater
material output, the world's people will be poorer in many ways than they are today.
For hundreds of millions of the desperately poor, the outlook for food and other necessities of life will be no better. For many it will be
worse.
Barring revolutionary advances in
technology***, life for most people on earth will be more precarious in 2000 than it is now unless the nations of the world act decisively to alter
current trends.
This in essence is the picture to emerge from the US Government's projections of probable changes in world population, resources, and
environment by the end of the century, as presented in the Global 2000 study. They do not predict what will occur. Rather they depict
conditions that
are likely to develop if there are no changes in public policies, institutions, or rates of technological advance, and if there are no wars or other
major disruptions. A keener awareness of the nature of the current trends, however, may induce changes that will alter the trends and the
projected outcome. " end quote.
The Report appears at first glance to be a decade or so out, but the drag of environmental sinks and the confluence with solar cycle progressions may bring the tipping point back to a date in the past.
*** just in case some see a relevance problem.