ABSTRACT
Dai Dong's Independent Conference met on June 1-6, 1972, at the Graninge Stiftsgard, a small retreat center situated on the beautiful but polluted Baltic, a dozen miles from Stockholm. Visibility was quickly achieved: from its opening day, the Dai Dong conference drew headlines in both the Stockholm and the world press, and was the source of constant radio and television stories and interviews. The awareness of the environmental crisis has come at a time when the deprived nations and the poor and deprived people in all nations are struggling for power to control their own destinies and asserting their right to full participation in national and world affairs. On a global scale, the population problems of the developing countries have coincided with the colonial expansions of the last two centuries, and the exclusion of Third World populations from full access to their own resources.
