un-sustainable paving stones
Here’s your new “rights.”
[read: what you get to provide for other people.]
Rio+20’s Secretary-General, Sha Zukang: ‘The commitments that we share with you today demonstrate that governments, the UN systems, and the nine major groups are committed and serious about implementation,’
…Some 40,000 people – including Heads of State and government, representatives from non-governmental organizations and the private sector – have been in Rio de Janeiro for the past three days, attending Rio+20, and seeking to help shape new policies to promote global prosperity, reduce poverty and advance social equity and environmental protection.
Whatinhell is “social equity” and what does it have to do with not polluting the water?
‘The Future We Want’ also focuses on improving gender equity; recognizing the importance of voluntary commitments on sustainable development; and stressing the need to engage civil society and incorporate science into policy; among other points.
“gender equity” So they gonna go after those who kill female children trying to go to school? I think not…
‘In a world of plenty, no one – not a single person – should go hungry,’ [United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon] said…
…‘Zero hunger would boost economic growth, reduce poverty and safeguard the environment. It would foster peace and stability,’
the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque has called on governments to fully support the right to drinking water and sanitation at Rio+20.
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The Rapporteur expressed concern that a clear recognition of the human right to water and sanitation is at risk of being suppressed from the conference outcome document after three rounds of negotiations in New York over the past three months.
‘Some States suggested alternative language that does not explicitly refer to the human right to water and sanitation,’ Ms. de Albuquerque said in a news release. ‘Some tried to reinterpret or even dilute the content of this human right,’
Hm… I think the measures necessary to provide Other People’s food to the starving would not support “reduced poverty or boosted economic growth.”
“Go where the fooooood is!!”
[I denounce myself. and Sam Kinison .]
Reducing the use of paper, providing vehicles powered by biodiesel and electricity, and using recyclable materials are some of the practices that were pursued at the Conference to minimize the forum’s environmental impact.
Here’s part of how they reduced the use of paper:
No toilet paper, no water, and tables being moved from underneath us. #RioPlus20 clearing out media before they can start the editorials…
But wait — WATER is a HUMAN RIIIIGHT !!!!!!!!!leb121!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe it’s stories like this that worry them?
On closer inspection, this landscape also reveals how much it has been abused. Trash and sewage accumulated over the years choke channels that let water flow between the lakes and the ocean. Pigs root through islands of clotted refuse just hundreds of yards (meters) from where world leaders will nail down shared goals on topics like ocean acidity and biodiversity.
…The pollution spread via channels, including one that travels right through the heart of the convention center, where the visitors will sun themselves on grass beside waste water.
Yep. All those high-fallutin ideas are grand. No one should ever make a mess — or, at least, not clean it up when they do. Everyone should have clean water, adequate sanitation, good food and the freedom to create all those for themselves. But the big old ugly, dirty-bad world just doesn’t work that way.
You cannot take stuff from capable “fortunate” people in order to give it to other people — while skimming a bit for your trouble — without expecting everyone to get more than a little honked off. It doesn’t matter whether the ‘other people’ are dumb and incapable or beset by situations not of their own making. HappyHappy JoyJoy Utopia? not so much.
Those taken from ain’t a’gonna like it and those given to will ask why they aren’t being given more. ["Yeah - so now I got a toilet. Where's my f'n iFone?!?"] It will create less incentive for everyone to work on their own behalf. [unless you also plan to change Human Nature?] Which will make for less growth, less peace, more instability, more thievery, more war and degradation of the environment… ["If it ain't mine, whyinhell should I bother to keep it clean?!?"]
Other than that — what could possibly go worng?!?
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Ban KiBarks At-moon.Hasn’t he gotten back on his spaceship yet?
As usual, the whole tone of the conference is all about jealousy over what we free market, capitalist, government of the people folks have wrought, versus centuries of failure of their own top down, socialist and dictator run countries.
Sounds like a lot bitter envy to me, and a lack of willingness to recognize that “your shit doesn’t work, never has and never will.”
Hoping they all die of typhoid and cholera,
A bitter clinger in Richmond.
Fewer people would go hungry if they didn’t burn food as biodiesel.
Electric cars burn coal.
Recycled? Only aluminum costs less to recycle than to make from scratch. Older steel cars used a whole lot of scrap metal. You guys recycled your vibrator/cellphone/pacemaker batteries, right?
Use Rio (socialist hellhole with endemic poverty and a nice beach) as the standard?
Use the collectivist definition of “right.” (need ≠ right)
Needs are things you acquire or provide for yourself.
Rights are things you are born with; things that you do not have to give up without your permission.
All those who think these elitist jackasses intend to live by the principles they want to impose on others, raise your hands.
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Didn’t think so.
One min. we’re too fat the next we can’t go hungry–
“socialist hellhole with endemic poverty and a nice beach”
(and big drug dealers and police killers)
THANK YOU!!!
Someone is wise enough to name this thing as it is: a socialist hellhole with endemic poverty and a nice beach. Even the beaches are not what they claim to be. You can be mugged – and killed – there. This Rio + 20 was a total waste of: paper, water, resources, patience …They were talking about abortion (where the hell does it links with environmental issues?)
OK, ALL those environmentalists are MORONS. I close my case, totally ashamed of my “fellow country … whatever”
At first I thought you were describing Olympia, WA, better known amongst us rednecks as “Little Frisco”.
November Is Coming™
Not particularly caring what the Dictator’s Old Boys Club wants.
You know, we should stop paying them money. We’re in debt, after all.
Stop paying them money and give them 24 hours to get out of the country.
“Whatinhell is “social equity” ….”
Same as “social justice”, which means, if you have more than I, I can call on the UN to take it from you and give some of it to me.
“improving gender equity….”
Talk to the Chinese first.
“the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation,”
[There's a great job title] Evian bottled water for everybody!!!!!
“Pigs root through islands of clotted refuse …”
Hey!!! This is Rio!!!
“If it ain’t mine, whyinhell should I bother to keep it clean?!?”
Like, f’r'instance, an OWS camp.
“Some 40,000 people – including Heads of State and government, …”
And just how did those people get there?
Rio? Because if they spelled out the plan with a “B” people would get wise. Last time I passed thru lovely Santa Barbara, they were having a problem with imported socialists (bums) sleeping in the parks and on their beaches.
Claire: I want to come over to your house and rub your feet, while drinking a cocktail.
Reads like the policy right here, Whatcom County, Washington. Out-freaking-rageous.
I wonder how many starving people wouldn’t have had to dig in the polluted dumps for food could be fed with what it cost to attend Rio+20???— Not to mention the pollution(of the brain) it caused and garbage (garbage in–garbage out).
Kill female children trying to go to school? How about killing female babies?
They always come up with some reason to go to another country, drink to excess and screw like rabbits. In the end, the money wasted could have kept thousands of charitable organizations solvent for another year.
May the fleas of a thousand diseased elephants infest their underwear.
WTF happened with the *Carbon Alibi*?
To improve gender equality, why don’t they start by improving it in every islamic shithole on the planet?
…No need to go too far too fast by allowing women to drive cars in Saudi Arabia and run loose in the street without a suitable male escort…
…Instead, they could just start by eliminating the popular islamic practice of stoning women to death who get raped?
Then once they’ve accomplished a few things like that they can get back to the rest of us.
“Okay, so the whole population bomb thing… well, bombed. What’s next, global warming?”
“Sure, let’s do that.”
Fifteen years later…
“Okay, so the whole global warming thing looks like death warmed over. What’s next, sustainability?”
“Sure, let’s do that.”
‘Failure is the only option for this conference if you care about the environment & poor people. Carbon based energy has been one of the greatest liberators of mankind in history of our planet’
Oh my, heads must have been exploding like that ‘Blow up a denier for Gaia’ commercial come to life.
Claire, remember, they won’t actually give anybody much of anything, just enough to make them hope “If we go along with them, maybe we’ll actually get something.” It’s a way to make slaves.