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The International Community and the Environment*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Maurice F. Strong
Maurice F. Strong
Affiliation:
Chairman of the Bureau, I.U.C.N., 1110 Morges, Switzerland, and Chairman of Petro-Canada, P.O. Box 2844, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; formely Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and subsequently Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
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It is a signal honour to have been asked to deliver this lecture to commemorate the outstanding contributions of Jean Baer and Julian Huxley to the cause of conservation. Both of these great men devoted their genius as scientists to helping us to broaden our perceptions of the human condition and their talents as leaders to establishing the institutions needed to safeguard and to improve the conditions of life on this planet. No two individuals did more to establish the foundations on which environmental conservation can now be seen and dealt with as a critical global issue.

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Main Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1977 , pp. 165 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1977

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* Substance of the first Baer-Huxley Memorial Lecture, delivered at the Hotel Loftleidir, Reykjavik, Iceland, on the evening of Wednesday 8 June 1977, after the mid-conference excursion during the Second International Conference on Environmental Future, with your Editor in the Chair. The Lecture was applauded with great enthusiasm which was followed by lively discussion that extended to midnight and involved, in addition to the Lecturer and Chairman (in the order of their first speaking), at least Ralph Glasser, Bent Juel-Jensen, Pierre Laconte, Arthur D. Hasler, Edward D. Goldberg, Peter B. Stone, E. Barton Worthington, Thomas F. Malone, Nicholas G. L. Guppy, Gary L. Widman, Edward Goldsmith, Elizabeth Dodson Gray, Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad (Maharaja of Baroda), Perez M. Olindo, Michael G. Royston, Richard G. Miller, Errol Cunningham, and Torgny Schütt.—Ed.