The child environmental activist of the 1990s
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The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
When the meeting was first mooted in the late sixties, rather than uniting the world for a goal above politics, it had instead just high lighted differences in the developed world. The soviet union threatened to boycot because east germany, which was not a member of the u.N., was not invited. More worrying was a planned boycot by the developing world. poorer nations feared a preoccupation with the environment would be costly and would divert aid and attention from their problems,. namely poverty and develop morris strong soon realized that to get them on side, he had to convince one woman in particular, the taciturn prime minister of india, inderagandy
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