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The day David Bowie released his 'Ziggy Stardust’ album was the final day of the landmark Stockholm Conference, which discussed Earth's environmental future.
Fifty years on, how Ziggy Stardust and the first UN climate summit changed our vision of the future.
The final day of the Stockholm Conference in 1972 was the day David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Mars was released to the world. Fifty years on, the hopes and fears evoked in this album, like the conference, are still feel disturbingly relevant, writes David Larsson Heidenblad.
David Larsson Heidenblad’s profile on The Conversation
In June 1972, the first United Nations conference on the human environment coincided with the release of David Bowie’s iconic Ziggy Stardust album. Both still feel disturbingly relevant today