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Ban Ki-moon Says World Leaders Need to “Lead By Action”
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today called for “revolutionary action” to achieve sustainable development, warning that the past century’s heedless consumption of resources is “a global suicide pact” with time running out to ensure an economic model for survival. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“revolutionary action” “a global suicide pact” “It is good business – good politics – and good for society.”
Jan 28th, 2011 - 09:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0blah blah blah and are we supposed to believe in you Mr. Ban, when $#@*% like this are involved?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpIFgmX6aY
“In the 21st century, supplies are running short and the global thermostat is running high.” These statements are both provably false.
Jan 29th, 2011 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0The UN idea of sustainable development is to set up a UN infrastructure in a developing country and call it “capacity building”. Millions are spent on buildings and staff and the poverty continues. Look at the situation of the Haiti earthquake victims and the Pakistan floods. Money flows out of wealthy countries and travels through many filtering processes before it arrives, severely depleted, in the target country, to be depleted even more by “feasibility studies” and UN bureaucracy.
The world's current economic model is an environmental “global suicide pact” that will result in disaster if it isn't reformed, .
Jan 29th, 2011 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0....need to embrace economic innovation in order to save the planet.
“We need a revolution,” on how best to make the global economy sustainable.
“Climate change is also showing us that the old model is more than obsolete.”
the current economic model (is) a recipe for “national disaster”
“We are running out of time. Time to tackle climate change, time to ensure sustainable … growth.”
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I agree, I agreeeeeeeeeee.
And let's start with the Greatest Power On Earth being persuaded to rein in on 'Spectacular Consumption'.
Initiate a world-wide campaign: “Help make every American a thin American”. The President of thwe USA is a good role-model - South American states could tell him on his visit south that Consumption Reduction is a core part of the Americas' Quid Pro Quo agenda.
Let's see how the UN does on 6Billion less from the USA this year, and this wealth transfer for “global warming” will never happen. Geesh do people think we are stupid? If they want to get pollution under control they should start with China and India belching out black noxious fumes so bad you can't even see the sky in Beijing. What a load of crap.
Jan 29th, 2011 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fred,
Jan 29th, 2011 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'you' exported all your production AND its pollution to China and India. 'You' did this knowingly.
What you can do now is in your backyard (wherever it is). Do your bit, whether it is down-sizing your car, reducing your fuel consumption, anything within your capability.
In the meantime, the best and biggest developments of carbon-reduced activities are evolving in China; time is of the essence and China IS attending to matters alongside its transition to developed world status - which is more than we can say about the US of A, who has NO EXCUSE.
Time is of the essence, prey tell why? Do you believe in the global warming myth? Don't you realize all of that science has been debunked?
Jan 29th, 2011 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You have obviously never been to any of these countries and only know what you read on the fantasy liberal eco-terrorist web sites. All I can say is the majority of the US doesn't believe in that wacko myth and you won't get any buy in from us. If we were gong to do something we would hvae done it by now.
Fred @ #8, didn't know you were US.
Jan 29th, 2011 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have spent my life as an applied environmental scientist and my university business frequently enabled me to visit (and work in) the States and the Far East, including China.
It's a pity you, personally, refuse to take responsibility for being one of the world's great consumers and polluters.
('terrorism' - a much more focussed expression since the advent of mass-murder human-bomb killings by 'real' terrorists).
Whilst much more interested in eco-trading than eco-terrorism my true calling is in the application of science, not economics, to world processes.
PS. “If we were gong to do something we would hvae done it by now.” (#8)Check out Cancun 2010 and the REDD+ Agreement.
Luckily we are constantly doing things, right as well as wrong, and we WILL drag the USA into the big picture - saving you from having to answer “what did you and uncle Sam do to the world, daddy”.
The US Congress will never pass anything that would have costly effects on our economy no matter what Obama and the other eco-liars agree to at the conference. Didn't you try that last year in Europe and a few years ago in japan? Give up it we will never agree to ruin our economy to make poor countries rich. We will go on just as we are probably using more coal soon and opening up Anwar and off shore drilling as soon as we get that current eviro-nut socialist out of office.
Jan 29th, 2011 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“What did you and uncle Sam do to the world, daddy”.
Jan 30th, 2011 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I ate till I could eat no more, I drunk till I was overfull, I bought masses of things really cheaply - and wasted and threw away most of it.
I used up all the things the world could provide me with knowing that I was causing the death of other fellow men, but hell son, they were all foreigners and Muslim terrorists!
Look at what I did to the world, my son - I, I did that! ...
Not just me, you understand - ALL Americans. We consumed like there was no tomorrow...”
Yes dad, but what happens to me tomorrow?”
We will never let some hippie tell us what to drive or how warm or cold we can keep our house. I am sorry you are a failure at your job.
Jan 30th, 2011 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Re #12
Jan 30th, 2011 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Quite the reverse - conspicuously successful over the years.
Do you have a job?
Sorry my mistake I thought your job was to get the USA to consume less energy? How is that going for you?
Jan 30th, 2011 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fine, but do you have a job?
Jan 30th, 2011 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yep one I really like too.
Jan 31st, 2011 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0@16 Do you have a job? How can someone like you ever be trusted??? Gee, you're slow minded but you have a job!?!? haha and what is your job? Can you please tell us about it? You live here, when do you work?
Jan 31st, 2011 - 05:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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