From the beds we wake up in to the buses we take and the offices we work at, it often seems like we live on a man-made planet. But the natural world is all around us, all the time. It’s just we build such intricate hideouts, we sometimes forget about it. So let’s refresh our memory.
This Is What A 350 Year Old Oak Tree Looks Like. Isn’t It Beautiful?
We’re releasing this list on a special occasion. Almost exactly 50 years ago, on June 5–16, 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference) was held in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the UN’s first major conference on international environmental issues and marked a turning point in the development of international policies.
When the 122 participating countries—70 of which were classified as developing or poor—adopted the Stockholm Declaration, they essentially committed to 26 principles and an action plan that established a multilateral environmental regime.
One of the overarching principles was that sovereignty should be subject to not causing harm to the natural world of other countries as well.
