Click below and listen to the disturbing story:
Story: <A HREF="http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20020909.ra&start=44:42.7">“SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS DEAD”: EARTH SUMMIT DRAWS TO A CLOSE IN
JOHANNESBURG</A> I’m looking at a piece posted on the CorpWatch website. It says:
“Sustainable Development is dead. It’s demise came, ironically, at the World
Summit on Sustainable Development. “It’s not that the phrase wasn’t invoked.
It was, ad nauseum. But it was hardly discussed. “Instead, sustainable
development was deemed to be whatever compromise governments happen to reach
on trade, subsidies, investment and aid, and whatever projects corporations
see fit to finance. “’Sustainable Development’ is now officially meaningless.
” Again, those are the words of Kenny Bruno in a piece he wrote for the
organization, CorpWatch. Around this time last year, the US had just pulled
out of the UN World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa. Now, the UN
Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa has drawn to a close among
allegations that the US blocked just about every meaningful action on the
agenda. Well, as we wrap up with our coverage of the Earth Summit, we’re
joined right now in the firehouse by Kenny Bruno. Guest:
Kenny Bruno, activist with Corpwatch and founder of the Greenwash Academy
Awards. He is also co-author with Joshua Karliner of the book ‘
Earthsummit.biz: The Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development,’ which
investigates how corporations, in partnership with the United Nations,
champion environmental sustainability and human rights while hiding their
polluting and exploitative practices with sophisticated PR campaigns touting
concern for a sustainable future. Contact:
<A HREF="http://www.corpwatch.org/">www.corpwatch.org</A>
<A HREF="http://www.earthsummit.biz/">www.earthsummit.biz</A>
<A HREF="http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20020909.ra&start=44:42.7">SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS DEAD”: EARTH SUMMIT DRAWS TO A CLOSE IN
JOHANNESBURG</A>
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