The summit isn't sustainable

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 08/27/2002 | Debra Saunders

[Pokey78]

PRESIDENT Bush was right to skip the U.N. "Earth Summit" now convening in Johannesburg, and send a delegation headed by Secretary of State Colin Powell instead. It would have been an improvement to nix the delegation completely, but why give the Euros another excuse to sniff and moan about U.S. "unilateralism"?

[ward_of_the_state]

Per today's Drudge Report, these attendees of this summit are enjoying caviar, champagne, and lobster while they talk about how all this starvation is America's fault. They can all collectively bite me.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

No different from the rest of the UN in New York. They all eat pretty well.

[stlrocket]

This is the first story/opinion piece I have seen that really sums up all the blatant hypocrisy going on at this sham of a summit.

I seriously doubt that the majority of American people cannot see thru this joke.

I just bet that these "delegates" are eating and drinking like crazy as they expound on how terrible the US is.

It sad that the press over exagerates the importance of these con artists in an attempt to show how much they care.

[ward_of_the_state]

Oh yeah, they eat well. They eat well and live well and take advantage of what America has to offer while blaming us for their own people's starvation. Nevermind that the governments they represent are the ones responsible for their peoples' starvation. GRRRRRRR!!!!!

[Hugin]

Don't forget the hookers.

[Jeff Head]

I took the summit's survey (link to THIS THREAD FOR THAT) and answered the questions honestly ... as a liberty loving, armed, free American.

Get rid of the UN, get rid of the "Earth Summit", focus on the Free Market, individuals have to be the solution, NGO's are a crock, etc.

Liberty and the Free Market are incompatible with "sustainable" environmental, Agenda 21 initiaitives concieved of or implemented by anything like the UN or its marxist appendages.

FRegards.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

wealthy nations to increase their foreign aid to poor countries from 0.2 percent of national income to 0.7 percent

They never count the contributions from the private sector, ya notice.

[goldstategop]

Its about the only thing Debra Saunders has written that's made sense in months. We should get out of the UN and stop giving bottom feeding socialist, feminazi, and Islamokamikazi slime the means to bury us with our own money. 'Nuff said. The only "sustainable" development I envision for the anti-America set is one that's preferably six feet under and out of sight and out of mind.

[Ferris]

There is only ONE solution to world hunger...

Just one...

Free market capitalism...

All other attempts will fail miserably...

[albee]

"...South African President Thabo Mbeki opened the conference with a rant against wealthy nations not sharing enough...

This old crap of trying to hang a guilt trip on America no longer flies with me. It is time to close our borders to any further immigration, end all financial aid to third world nations and start to spend American money on Americans.

Perhaps when the people of places like Zimbabwe start really starving, they may get off their collective asses and do something to change their government.

[Faraday]

This is a UN Conference on Sustainable Stupidity. Sorry, we're not buying!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you nailed it. Its the Tragedy of the Commons writ large.

[GBA]

They have peed in their own well and when we offer a glass of clean water, they refuse. Ok, fine.

Western countries are the cleanest on the planet. We produce the most and we do so efficiently and, for the most part, clean up after ourselves. We are so good at food production that we pay our farmers not to grow any more.

Only a fool would believe that other countries do as well. When they try, they pollute more than we do while wasting more reasources to produce less. The rest of the world should demand that we that we keep on doing what we are doing, as the way we do it is obviously working better than anyone else. It's better for the planet.

[PaulKersey]

You know it must be REAL bad down there for the San Fran Chron to say ANYTHING good about Bush.

[mewzilla]

Of course it's not sustainable. They'll run out of lobster and caviar sooner or later.

[Southack]

Wow! I am AMAZED that the SF Chronicle, of all papers, actually ran this article!

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

They can all collectively bite me.

With your kind permission, I may adopt that phrase as my daily creed. It applies to a buttload of people walking around breathing perfectly good oxygen needed for more productive uses.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Islamokamikazi

Poetic. I like it.

[AFreeBird]

Wow, this article came out of a San Francisco news paper? Are you sure?

It is a great article; hits the nail on the head so to speak... Just what the heck is going on out there?