If 700 International Environmental Treaties Can’t Save the Planet…
10th June 2012
…Will 1400 do it? 2100? In two weeks, the United Nations will convene its Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro where yet more international treaties to save the planet will be discussed. The conference is being called Rio + 20 to memorialize the history in which the wildly successful United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN’s global economic 100-year plan Agenda 21 were adopted in that city at the first Earth Summit back in 1992.
Notwithstanding the effects of 700 environmental treaties, the United Nations Environment Program has issued a new report, Global Environmental Outlook 5, that finds, despite 20 years of the best efforts of UN bureaucrats, things remain bad and are getting worse.
Of course. Without an ongoing crisis, these U.N. kleptocrats are out of jobs, and being kicked off the gravy train is the last thing they want.