sure ya do...
Posted on 04/02/2002 3:58:35 PM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
World environment agency would ease chaos, says study
Tuesday, April 02, 2002
By Reuters
UNITED NATIONS — A new world environment organization and an international environmental court would help make sense of the more than 500 environmental agreements and agencies now operating around the globe, researchers said recently.
Legal and environmental experts from the Tokyo-based U.N. University called on a U.N. development summit opening in Johannesburg in August to weigh creating a global body with powers over the environment similar to those of the World Trade Organization over international trade.
Their report said environmental regulation has emerged in an ad hoc and somewhat chaotic fashion over the past 30 years due to "the essentially random emergence of environmental issues onto national and international political agendas."
The soaring number of global environmental institutions argues strongly that the current system of international environmental governance is "too complicated (and) steadily getting worse," the experts said
They acknowledged that giving teeth to a new global agency was one of the most controversial aspects of the debate as governments are reluctant to turn over their powers to an outside body that could rule against them.
But "one of the core benefits to be offered by a judicial settlement system is that it could bring a much greater level of predictability to international environmental governance by ending serious violations of international environmental law regardless of the perpetrator," their report argued. In addition, problems like global warming and pollution simply transcend national interests, they said.
Report contributors included Steve Charnovitz of the U.S. law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; Peter Haas of the University of Massachusetts; Sebastian Oberthur of Berlin-based Ecologic; and Joost Pauwelyn of the World Trade Organization.
Copyright 2002, Reuters
I also disagree with your premise that God only works with those who want to be changed. He, many times, works outside of our wishes but always in accord with His lovingkindness.
That would be on or about April 11, '02.
Wooooooooo Hoooooooo. Look what happens when you give a bunch of guys World Series Ring before a game!!!!! And of course, Randy Johnson pitched 9 inning shut out, last pitch of game 102 mph!!
Us Arizonan's don't often get braging rights!!! :)
It's time to remember George Washington's warning:
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it, for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.
Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
And we should stop giving taxpayer money to foreigners.
sure ya do...
NO NO NO!!!
Oh no! Another one!
Future red zone newspaper headline:
I suppose that randomness of environmental "issues" would result from the spectacle of groups of essentially unemployable socialists going for the gold ring of "jobs" that provide them with cover for their agenda (they deeply, deeply care), a paycheck and their cherished cloak of smugness. The hat trick.
Of course, like all good totalitarians everywhere, they need to be backed up by heavy guns; since their victims consistently resist surrendering their rights voluntarily.
No matter though, a couple of more generations' worth of government school propaganda, dilution of what's left of property rights, and public shows of punishment for dissenters - it'll all fall into place quite smoothly.
"We Israelis have also been plagued by world mending. Like the founding fathers of the Reform movement, who believed the spiritually stimulating Jews' dispersal was God's blessing to the gentiles, we were foolish enough to think the Middle East would dance to our world-mending tunes. And like the Jews who had just emerged from the ghetto, simply making peace with our enemies wasn't enough for us - we wanted to change them. And so, like previous Jewish world-mending efforts, this one, too, ended in major-league failure, depression and bloodshed."
Precisely how did the Jews try to "change" the arabs?...other than to persuade them to stop killing women and children, etc.?
--Boris
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