Fifty five years ago, on this day, July 30, 1968, the top committee of the United Nations says yes to a environment conference, something the Swedes had been pushing for.
1968 July 30 Resolution 1346 (XLV) recommends that the General Assembly consider a conference on environmental problems.
The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was roughly 324ppm. As of 2023 it is 423ppm, but check here for daily measures.
The context was as per previous blog posts here (May 1968)and here (December 1967). Earlier in the year one of the diplomats had given a speech, which was the first mention of climate change, though it wasn’t, because he didn’t call it that.
What I think we can learn from this
Regardless of the names/terminology, we have known about this for a long time.
What happened next
In December 1968 , the UN General Assembly nodded it through. And then in 1972 the Stockholm conference happened.
What do you think? Does this pass the ‘so what?’ threshold? Have I got facts wrong? Interpretation wrong? Please do comment on this post, unless you are a denialist, obvs.