Environmental non-governmental contributions to the global environmental movement, 1962-1992

Abstract

Despite the fact that humankind's concern for the environment dates back many centuries, the concept of nature as an infinite resource that could be exploited as humankind saw fit, prevailed. The environmental revolution of the 1960s shattered this belief and recurrent environmental disasters in the late sixties brought home the finite capability of the natural environment to absorb unchecked industrial and demographic growth.