Afier the Stockholm Conference, held by the United Nations Organization in 1972, the awareness of the vital need of the environmental preservation started to spread throughout the planet. At same year, the Getulio Vargas Foundation started the translation and publication of a selected and specialized bibliography on the subject, in his article, the author summarizes the enuironment problems, first item of the world agenda, aiming to find a path to the Sustainable Development and the general Welfare of the humanity. The author's conclusion is the evidence that a Planetary Pact is now essencial.
Sustainable Development; Ecology; demographic explosion; environment; poverty