Nuclear Policy
A nuclear winter, following a nuclear war between the United States and the USSR, would be devastating for survivors, however far they might live from the conflict. A recent fact sheet produced by New Zealand doctors, engineers and scientists showed that the threat of a nuclear war is the number one ecological problem facing the earth, and certainly human beings. ‘‘The scientific studies conclude that eventually there might be no human survivors of a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere. The complete extinction of our human species cannot be excluded,’’ the document points out. With this in mind, Forest and Bird’s executive resolved at its March meeting that ‘‘as ecologists believing in the imminence of the threat to all life posed by the possibility of a nuclear winter, the Executive of the Society opposed nuclear weapons and their presence in New Zealand.’’ This motion now becomes the basis of an executive remit to the June Council meeting to formulate Society policy.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 16, Issue 2, 1 May 1985, Page 23
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163Nuclear Policy Forest and Bird, Volume 16, Issue 2, 1 May 1985, Page 23
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