[marktwain]

Wow! This is great!

Sarcasm on

I wonder why this isn't being given the coverage that the anti-globalism protestors get? Gee, it couldn't be because the media has an agenda, could it??

Sarcasm off

[TigersEye]

Hundreds of "anti-summit" protestors took to the streets here Thursday to criticize what they see as the "sustainable poverty" agenda of environmentalists at the Earth summit, formally known as the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development.

"Everything they are discussing here is actually going to retard development..." marcher Barun Mitra told CNSNews.com . Mitra is a farming advocate for India and a member of the Liberty Institute of New Delhi.

Wow! Is there a FR chapter in New Delhi? And they went all the way to Johannesburg to FReep the UN conference? Kewl!

If there isn't maybe there should be. Glad to see we're not the only ones who think the UN sucks swamp gas.

[alley cat]

"We at the Sierra Club stand in solidarity with our comrades..."

Comrades???

They aren't even trying to hide it!!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh) criticizes U.S. President Bush as he addresses journalists in Johannesburg on August 29, 2002. The United States is taking the brunt of criticism at the World Summit on Sustainable Development and a group of U.S. congressmen stepped up the pressure on Thursday, laying into the Bush administration. REUTERS/Juda Ngwenya - Aug 29 6:44 AM ET

From left, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, U.S. Congressmen Dennis Kucinich, center, of Ohio, and George Miller of California listen as the Mayor of Oakland, California, Jerry Brown speaks during a news conference at the United Nations Media Center of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg on Thursday Aug. 29, 2002. Brown and the U.S. Congessional delegates to the summit called on the Bush Administration to reconsider its position towards the Kyoto Protocol and to show leadership during the Summit as the world's richest nation as well as being the world's biggest polluter.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) - Aug 29 5:42 AM ET

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

'Sustainable-Poverty'

I love it. Great rhetoric. Use the leftist's own catch phrases against them.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

I would say the fault is less with the environmentalists than with the political policies of third world governments.

[2sheep]

Joan Veon has stated something about "sustainable" being just another word for "communism."

[wallcrawlr]

Its too bad it takes a group of people out of S Africa to make this information get reported.

Where is the USA pride in this country?

[missycocopuffs]

Bumping another of your great posts...

For another good laugh, check out the Earth Day Footprint Quiz. This quiz was posted on another thread here at FR, but it bears a repeat.

The only way I have found to "win" the quiz is to live in a domicile without electricity or running water. Get real.

http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp#

[madfly]

Johannesburg ping!

[1Old Pro]

"Everything they are discussing here is actually going to retard development, and this is being done in the name of the poor. I think that is appalling, I think that is criminal," marcher Barun Mitra told CNSNews.com .

I'll bet the major networks refused to interview this guy or even admit that this protest was going on.

Not like when a handful of anti-GOP protestors protest sometning, they act as if it's the only thing going on.

[avg_freeper]

I make a habit of listening to Science Friday on NPR. About the only show I listen to on public radio.

Anyway, a few weeks ago they had on a number of people talking about this "sustainable development" stuff.

The show had a number of experts on discussing farming methods around the world and what needs to be done. Being NPR I thought that they would take a "people be damned" approach and start spouting enviro-nut dogma while denouncing America.

Quite the opposite occurred, they were pretty much in agreement that developing countries need to start emulating America and its freedom. There was an individual from India I think that said the biggest road block to "sustainable farming" is the lack of personal freedoms and the ability to own property in poorer countries.

I believe that people in these developing countries know that the enviro-nuts are only concerned with their bloated self importance and could care less about the rest of the world.

Capitalism in a freedom loving republic is the only way.

[headsonpikes]

This is just a bunch of libertarian propaganda! These people just want to make money.

That is just so capitalist!

World leaders know what's best.

Think of the future generations of childern; I'm sure they do.

[Carry_Okie]

It is a pity that Dr. Coffman didn't mention that Free Market Alternative, seeing as he got it from me.

[Always Right]

Greenpeace spokesman Brian Fitzgerald denied that the Green movement is trying to deny hihger living standards to the world's poorest nations.

LOL.....the Greens were just talking about how the should not allow electricity in as it ruin these poor countries.

[Always Right]

'Sustainable-Poverty'....that's the best slogan I have heard to fight their "Sustainable-Growth" B.S.

[justshutupandtakeit]

LoL. Good post. This nails the enviro-whackos exactly.

[headsonpikes]

"Sustainable Poverty"

Watermelon Jihadist bump. ;^)

[John Lenin]

The BIG NEWS should be Al Gores non appearance at the Earth Summit. How come the media hasn't mentioned it ?

[jjm2111]

Note to president Bush: If there's a Liberty Institute of New Delhi. in India, we should create closer ties with India.

Me thinks the free market message spreading? Poor countries are getting tired of socialism?

Now, the only thing we need to do is drop our protectionism so we don't seem like such hypocrites