Rio’s ‘Failure should be celebrated as The Future We Avoided’ — The ‘failure’ of Rio+20 is cause for celebration, even if you can’t afford champagne & foie gras that ecocrats served themselves’
Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad called for rich countries to eschew ‘materialist’ desires and pursue ‘spiritual’ development. ‘The collapse of the current atheistic order is reaching its time’
Lord Monckton Reports From Rio: A ‘MAD GIG’: ‘The new religion turned normal floodlighting of towering statue of Christ to an unpleasant, lurid green, so that He looks like a giant jelly-bean’
11-year-old activist Ta’Kaiya Blaney ‘delivers a powerful message’: ‘As humans, our priorities are to the land & the water. We need to change the way we do things today or there will be no future’
Maurice Strong invented ‘sustainable development’ — ‘Thrashed out the basis for an accommodation between environmentalism & the Third World’s development ambitions’
‘The Voices of Women’ at Rio Earth Summit: ‘We used to call it weather, storms, now we know to call it climate change’
Rio’s Buzzing About Natural Capital Accounting: ‘We would be saying we are better off being ignorant. We should not be closing our eyes to the value of what natural assets contribute to our economy’
Lame it on Rio: Bill McKibben: ‘The Rio+20 conference is remarkably listless; the energy of 1992 has bled into a formulaic bureaucracy-fest’
Climate Depot’s Morano tells UN Earth Summit in Rio: ‘Failure here is good for the world’s poor people’ — ‘Carbon based energy is one of the greatest liberators of mankind’