Look At What Is Sustainable

I was over at Watts Up With That getting involved in a discussion of politics plus the demise of Scientific American when the subject of Maurice Strong and the UN came up.

That got me to do a little searching and it is funny what I found. First the wind up.

The World Summit on Sustainable Development, WSSD or Earth Summit 2002 took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened to discuss sustainable development by the United Nations. WSSD gathered a number of leaders from business and non-governmental organizations, 10 years after the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. It was therefore also informally nicknamed “Rio+10”.

and now the pitch.

In terms of the political commitment of parties, the Declaration is a more general statement than the Rio Declaration. It is an agreement to focus particularly on “the worldwide conditions that pose severe threats to the sustainable development of our people, which include: chronic hunger; malnutrition; foreign occupation; armed conflict; illicit drug problems; organized crime; corruption; natural disasters; illicit arms trafficking; trafficking in persons; terrorism; intolerance and incitement to racial, ethnic, religious and other hatreds; xenophobia; and endemic, communicable and chronic diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.”

Well isn’t that interesting. The illegal drug market fosters organized crime, wars, corruption, arms trafficking, armed conflict, and AIDS. The only thing you can conclude from their efforts is that they want to sustain the misery a little longer. Because they make no mention of “ending prohibition” as a solution.