The first international conference on the global environment was held in 1972. Has the world come any closer to solving its environmental problems in the intervening 20 years?
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Zuckerman, L. Between Stockholm and Rio. Nature 358, 273–276 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/358273a0
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