Ashwari, Arafat: "All terrorists can reliably depend upon Iran's mullahs
and our pet Peter Jennings. All your media are belong to us."
Posted on 08/28/2002 11:54:10 AM PDT by Draakan
If you believe ABC News the Bush administration is threatening the world by refusing to go along with the pseudo-scientific demand that the U.S. throttle its economy to appease environmental activists who claim human activity is causing a climate catastrophe, and U.S. disagreement is blocking the rest of the world from taking any action.
At least that was the view presented on Monday's World News Tonight by correspondent Richard Gizbert in a piece previewing the UN's environmental summit in South Africa: "The UN says carbon dioxide emissions are up nine percent...18 percent in the United States. Global weather is the warmest on record. Yet there is such disagreement on climate change, it's not even on the agenda this time."
ABC's pre-summit story, transcribed by MRC analyst Brad Wilmouth, quoted the South African president and a British activist who condemned American policy, but completely omitted the American point of view.
Peter Jennings set up the August 26 story: "Overseas today, the United Nations is beginning the largest summit meeting it has ever held, large and very complex. More than 100 presidents and prime ministers will show up over the next several days in South Africa. And there they will debate what the world can do to raise the standard of living for several billion people in the world who are increasingly being left behind. As we said, it's very, very complex. It is the Earth Summit, they haven't had one in ten years, and here is ABC's Richard Gizbert."
Gizbert began from London: "These villagers in Ghana risk being poisoned every time they go to the river. They have no access to clean water, like one in every five people on Earth. It's the kind of problem that this summit is supposed to deal with." Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa: "This is a world in which a rich minority enjoys unprecedented levels of consumption, comfort and prosperity, while the poor majority endures daily hardship, suffering, and dehumanization." Gizbert: "The global economy has grown significantly in the ten years since the last Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, but aid to the poor is down, from $35 per person in Africa to $19. There are 750 million more people on Earth. The Amazon rain forest is still burning, 6,000 square miles per year. And the UN says carbon dioxide emissions are up nine percent since Rio, 18 percent in the United States. Global weather is the warmest on record. Yet there is such disagreement on climate change, it's not even on the agenda this time." Joanne Green, Tearfund UK policy officer: "Unfortunately, the U.S., along with Canada and Australia, have been blocking any concrete proposals being agreed, and this is causing a great problem. They're taking an isolationist approach to this whole summit." Gizbert concluded: "What is on the agenda is bashing the U.S. At a summit where lofty ambitions meet with conflicting interests, that might be the one thing people actually agree on.”
ABC News seem to agrees too.
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Ashwari, Arafat: "All terrorists can reliably depend upon Iran's mullahs
and our pet Peter Jennings. All your media are belong to us."
Ah, can't they did a well? I mean, if your village can't get together to dig a well, I'm supposed to do it? I don't think so. Frankly, IMHO, close the book on Africa. Experiment failed, move on, lesson learned. I know the libs will be all over me. But they can go, be hero's for all I care. I'll even say they were right if they succeed. But arn't they Darwinists? Don't they drive around with little fish with feat that say darwin on their Volvos? Don't they say the world is overpopulated? Got to start somewhere, why not Africa? I, more than, don't care.
I agree.
Now, be nice. Liberals are not as smart as some of us, and are sensitive when people point that out.
Yes, they claim the world is overpopulated, and even pushed the US to achieve "Zero Population Growth" years ago, which the US has, fundamentally, achieved. However, ZPG was not a big hit in Africa or Asia, where the overpopulation issues present significant problems to local economies and infrasructure.
Africa would be as good a place as any to begin work on reducing populations to sustainable levels, if reducing world population is one of the Liberals' goals. However, telling the Third World what they should do is never the goal of these events. Telling the US what we need to do is what these things are about.
But, please be sensitive when explaining this to Liberals. They have very fragile self-esteem.
Haven't watch it either. In fact, make a point of it.
Sac
ABC = ALL BULL CRAP
Warm up the crematoriums. Time for the tolerance and compassion crowd to reduce the population in the name of environmental activism.
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