Margaret Thatcher, UN General Assembly 48th plenary meeting, 1989

        November 8, 1989 United Nations | New York | energy: future

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher noted that since her last speech to the UN, the challenge to the environment “has grown clearer than any other in both urgency and importance.” In the end, Thatcher calls on industrialized countries to contribute more, that “reason is humanity’s speciality,” and we are not “lords of all we survey.” [35:28]