On Thursday, as we traveled through Rio, helicopters, flashing lights, and motorcades were everywhere. Heads of state (but not President Obama) were arriving, snarling traffic as they moved about the city.
The preliminary conference has concluded, leaving behind a stripped-down version of The Future We Want document that sustainability activists had drafted. This may have represented the future they want, but it was one that most people, in rich and poor countries alike, would surely dread.
Rio+20 Showdown with Richard Branson - By David Rothbard - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Words flew as CFACT’s Craig Rucker and Sir Richard Branson squared off at the Rio+20 Earth Summit in Brazil. Surrounded by Greenpeace activists, Branson was leaving the Greenpeace press conference just as Rucker was entering for CFACT’s press event.
Rucker seized the opportunity to confront the globe-trotting, fossil-fuel-burning Branson about his unlikely position on global warming.
“Sir, do you support the European carbon tax on your own planes going from the United States to Europe?” Rucker asked. Clearly surprised, Branson responded that he would prefer that it be an “international tax, rather than just one area of the world.”
Rio+20 Earth Summit is a washout - Telegraph
Yet, as one top international official privately put it to me: “The UN could not survive many more meetings like this.” And there are increasing signs that businesses and some governments are getting fed up.
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