"We see our thing as being more important than the UN Conference - that's just a movie ... it's all been planned out ... like there's nothing left to happen".
An eye-witness account of the external events which occurred in Stockholm last June when, in the wake of the United Nations Conference on Human Environment, thousands of people from all over the world came to live and camp in and around the city. They became known as the Alternative and 2,000 armed police were called in to handle the situation. Some of the Alternative had worked for years to prepare their brief: others just came. And they left behind no doubts that Environment could any longer simply mean Pollution. The UN Declaration was frustrated and almost destroyed by national economic and political interest. The Alternative proposed a different approach.

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