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Posted on 02/02/2012 10:47:57 AM PST by matt04
The world can no longer afford to ignore the environmental cost of economic growth and must redefine the very concept of national wealth, a UN panel of heads of state and environment ministers said Monday.
The panel challenged leaders to recognise that "current global development is unsustainable."
"We need to chart a new, more sustainable course for the future, one that strengthens equality and economic growth while protecting our planet," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in Addis Ababa to mark the release of the panel's report, which outlines more than 50 policy recommendations.
By 2030, the report warned, the planet will need at least 50 percent more food, 45 percent more energy and 30 percent more water.
These needs are emerging "at a time when environmental boundaries are throwing up new limits to supply," it said.
Continuing along the same path as today risks "irreversible damage to both ecosystems and human communities."
Entitled "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing," the 100-page report seeks to shape in broad strokes the agenda for the Rio+20 summit this summer.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Talk about solutions to yesterday's problems. Er, guys, sounds like someone needs to pick up a newspaper. What economic growth?
A giant step in the right direction would be to dismantle the UN
The last thing we need is those guys ‘redistributing’ our money after “O” redistributes it from us to the Fed.
Another attempt at UN takeover
Malthusian, isn’t it?
Brain addled commies, islamists or dupes; just like democrats, there is NO third possibility.
What are we to think of an organization where the racist butcher Robert Mugabe gets the same vote as the country of Japan?
“Sustainability” is code for “kill billions of people so I can live in a Walden paradise.”
Malthusian Luddites that pass for elite thinkers.
The General added, “I will live on the equivalent of $300 per year to demonstrate sustainable development is possible.”
The exact location of the hut remains a secret.
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