The Wash Post of 4-15-96 reports on Secretary of State
Christopher's recent speech at Stanford on putting the
environment at the top of the US diplomatic agenda:

Secretary of State Warren Christopher has seen the
future and finds it alarming.

He sees parched fields, poisoned air, toxic waters,
rampant disease and societies driven to armed conflict
by competition for dwindling resources -- all
potentially threatening to Americans.

In that vision, those calamities resulted not from
nuclear war but from worldwide abuse of the environment
and overpopulation.

It was those threats that impelled Christopher last week
to proclaim a new definition of national security and a
worldwide shift in the objectives of U.S. diplomacy.
Christopher set environmentalism as a top priority, in
addition to traditional goals such as preserving peace
and promoting prosperity, in a speech outlining what
senior aides said he hopes will be the legacy of his
four years of directing the nation's foreign policy.

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