Posted on 02/25/2012 10:49:47 AM PST by opentalk
With gasoline prices spiking, a presidential election looming in the fall, and recent failures at reaching sweeping global agreements on environmental policy, the Obama Administration is heading into this summers Rio + 20 Conference on Sustainable Development with modest goals, looking for areas of broad agreement and civic engagement that can be touted as populist environmental progress.
We consider it an aspirational meeting, a U.S. State Department spokesman told Fox News.
This is a good, positive meeting, in which we go forward in as pragmatic a way as possible.
...Nevertheless, the long-term goal of Rio + 20 remains the same: to push the world as fast as possible toward a drastic reordering of social, economic and industrial policies, reorganize global distribution of food and water supplies, and engage in mammoth international financing exercises and new exercises in global governance to make the whole scheme work.
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It has finally dawned on the Europeans that their entire economy in very near collapse.
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