Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/26/2010 10:34:03 AM PST by Squidpup
"Despite the debacle of the failed Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the United Nations is pressing full speed ahead with a plan for a greatly expanded system of global environmental governance and for a multitrillion-dollar economic transfer scheme to ignite the creation of a "global green economy." In other words: Copenhagen without the authority — yet — of Copenhagen.
The world body even has chosen a time and a place for the culmination of the process: a World Summit on Sustainable Development to be held in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, the 20th anniversary of the famed "Earth Summit" that gave focus and urgency to the world environmentalist movement.
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In all of this, it appears, the 2012 Rio Conference on Sustainable Development and the preliminary meetings that will determine its agenda is intended to play an important role in focusing attention on the agenda being discussed at Bali, and in creating the suggested frameworks of future "international governance." Above all, the planned Rio summit will be a framework that welds together the UNEP framework of environmentalism with the U.N.'s traditional anti-poverty agenda — which also involves huge investment transfers to poor countries from rich ones.
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U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.!
The U.N. buildings are a waste of prime Manhattan real estate. Tear ‘em down and re-develop the site with something useful.
Okay we lied too you.
But that doesn’t mean we didn’t have a good idea. :D
Trying to beat the *Mayans* to the punch??
What's the point in global control after 2012?
Good luck getting 67 votes for this in the Senate.
Totally perfect timing! Just a few months before the next Presidential elections! I’m just itching to fire up the popcorn maker, even though this is two and a half years away!
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