United Nations And The New Age - Way of Life Literature

Organization receives world-wide weather and climatedata from satellites; the International MaritimeOrganization has an international satellite which servesall ships and navigators around the world; the Food andAgriculture Organization receives outer spaceinformation on weather, crop outlooks, floods and plantepidemics; UNESCO is testing educational systems bymeans of satellites, and the UN held another outerspace conference in 1982.“Yes, the UN is dealing with the gaseous layersurrounding our globe, the atmosphere with itscomponents, the troposphere, stratosphere andionosphere. Under the auspices of the WorldMeteorological Organization, governments arecooperating in a Global Atmospheric ResearchProgram. The United Nations Environment Program(UNEP) is keeping a check on the state and the qualityof the atmosphere and the ionosphere. It convened in1978 a world conference on the ozonosphere. TheInternational Civil Aviation Organization is dealing withair safety, international air traffic and a legal order forworld air transport.“Yes, the UN is concerned with our globe’s climate,including the possible reoccurrence of ice ages: theWorld Meteorological Organization held a first worldclimate conference in 1979.‘Yes, the UN is concerned with the total biospherethrough project Earthwatch, the global EnvironmentProgram of UNEP and UNESCO’s program, ‘Man andthe Biosphere.’“Yes, the UN is dealing with our planet’s seas andoceans through the Law of the Sea Conference,UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic24