How “Sustainability” Became “Sustained Growth”
The draft and probably final declaration is 283 paragraphs of fluff. It s
uggests that the 190 governments due to approve it have, in effect, given up on multilateralism, given up on the world and given up on us.
see also update http://thefreeonlin ..governments-have-given-up-on-the-planet/
The Rio Declaration rips up the basic principles of environmental action. In 1992 world leaders signed up to something called “sustainability”. Few of them were clear about what it meant; I suspect that many of them had no idea. Perhaps as a result, it did not take long for this concept to mutate into something subtly different: “sustainable development”. Then it made a short jump to another term: “sustainable growth”. And now, in the 2012 Earth Summit text that world leaders are about to adopt, it has subtly mutated once more: into “sustained growth”…. Continue reading “Rio treaty ‘written for billionaires’..283 paragraphs of fluff.”
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