While, in Nairobi, in Kenya, from the 10th to
the 20th of next August the United Nations Conference on
Energy is to be held at the same time as a forum
organized by Non Governmental Organization (from August
9th to 16th ), it seems timely to recall the world
declarations issued by the Peoples Congress
in 1972,
at the time at the meeting in Stockholm, the one prepared
by Josué de CASTRO :
As DELEGATES of the PEOPLE'S CONGRESS elected
directly and democratically by a trans-national
electorate spread over 110 countries
WE PROCLAIM
Our deep concern about the dangers that the human race
is facing, due to:
- The air and rivers pollution which knows no
boundaries
- The pollution of the oceans which have become a
dumping ground for the world
- The thoughtless destruction of arable land
- The monstrous waste of natural resources which can
never be replaced
Conscious that currently these problems cannot be
solved because of the lack of world solidarity that would
impose to the industrial companies a plan to fight this
scourges,
WE DEMAND:
That the delegates of the sovereign Nation-States
gathered in Stockholm
- realize the impossibility in which they are
trapped, being the prisoners of the irremovable
structures that they represent
- act in an effective way in favour of the only
solution that will insure the survival of
humanity
By: the creation of World Institutions based on
partial power delegation from the Nations-States,
because the biosphere can only be protected by world
law.
in
1974
We notice:
- The continuing exploitation of the Third World by
the privileged countries
- The inequality in access to raw materials
- The squandering of essential wealth
Therefore
We Declare:
That it is absolutely essential to create World
Institutions with limited but real power to ensure:
- Rational exploitation of non renewable raw
materials and of the existing energy sources
- Impartial distribution of wealth among the globe
population
- Research and development of new and non polluting
energy sources
Only world solutions can
solve the problems of the world survival
