LGBT try to get climate change funding
Abortion leaders have shamelessly discussed how they can tap into the massive global funding on HIV/AIDS. Now LGBT leaders are eyeing the flood of money going toward climate change. Noelene Nabulivou, from Fiji, is a member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). She proposed this theory at a panel on Development [...]
Eliminating People to Help People?
Can a “human-centered approach” to issues include policies with the express purpose of eliminating people? This argument is cropping up, particularly in debates over climate change and now health care. Hard-core believers of climate change have argued that a key way to reduce greenhouse gases is to reduce people. This was rejected most recently at Rio+20 when UNFPA and [...]
The UNFPA’s Miserable Failure to Control the World’s Population at Rio +20
The UNFPA left the Rio +20 conference on sustainable development without anything to show for its efforts. Not a single one of their hard fought suggestions ever made it into the text. Their presence at the conference could hardly even be felt, except through a few countries like New Zealand, Norway and Iceland, which were [...]
Architect of Reproductive Rights Dies
Perusing the Sunday New York Times yesterday I saw that Joan Dunlop died on Friday at 78. I wondered how many pro-lifers would even know the name. The obit did her no justice. Couched in the fuzzy, cryptic terms about health and women’s rights editors use these days for abortion, it was hard to tell that she was a giant in the arena [...]
Melinda Gates and the New Population Control Movement
Love him or hate him, Stephen Colbert doesn’t waste time getting to the point. In last Thursday’s interview with Melinda Gates on the Colbert Report, he asked Melinda about her newest initiative and cut straight to the chase: the new population control movement exists to save lives by erasing lives. Colbert: “But now you’ve got [...]
Rio + 20 in Pics
You can check google for more pics of the conference. Here is a selection of pics to give a different perspective. The Earth is Sick and Humans are the Problem. A poster hangs in the main entrance of the Rio +20 pavillion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, showing that human beings are the disease that plagues the earth. Some [...]
Rio + 20: Green Economy Loses, Sovereign States Win, Civil Society Disappointed
Rio + 20 was touted as the most important United Nations Conference ever by the UN bureaucracy led by the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon. It was also touted to be a UN Conference where we would witness unprecedented collaboration between Governments and civil society. To that end, for the past two years civil society had [...]
Hey “Civil Society”: Rio +20 is OVER
Just so we are clear, for all intents and purposes, the real Rio +20 conference is over. The next few days exist only for the media and the heads of state that now swarm the “Rio Centro” like bees. Negotiators sealed and delivered the document on Monday night at 3:30am. It will be signed in [...]
Rio + 20: Holy See Shines Light in the Midst of Darkness
If you are reading this, you are probably afraid that what is going on in Rio de Janeiro right now during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development is nothing other than the proverbial “blind leading the blind”. As countries hurry to make politically expedient and alarmist statements about climate change, the green economy and reproductive [...]
Rio + 20: Brazil Takes Control of Document
It was almost expected, and everyone here in Rio is taking it on the chin. Late Friday night it became inevitable. The outcome document of the Rio + 20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development will not be the result of multilateral negotiations carried out under the rules of the United Nations, but will be controlled by Brazil, the host [...]
Rio + 20: No Guarantees of a Sustainable Future
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, is now in its third day. It has been touted as the most significant UN Conference ever. That’s what we’ve been hearing from the Secretary General and his UN political sales fleet made up of high and low ranking UN staff and delegations for [...]
Live from Rio +20: Part 4
Well folks, it’s day three. The atmosphere here is one of utter exhaustion and frustration. The shuttle buses to and from the city center are never on time. Delegates are missing their meetings. The negotiations are dragging on and have yet to reach any conclusions. Small countries, with tiny delegations have all but given up [...]
Following Rio +20
There is a website with decent, relatively non-biased coverage of Rio +20 which I encourage anyone interested in the Rio +20 process to follow. They publish a daily synopsis of negotiations here. Additionally, Stakeholder forum has some good analysis as well.
U.S. State Department Announces Rio +20 Delegation, Hillary Clinton Included
Here is the official wire: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Head U.S. Delegation to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will head the U.S. delegation to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20, which will take place June 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The [...]
Rio +20 the Tahrir Square of the Environmentalist Revolution?
Hardly. But according to well known Brazilian activist, politician, and former presidential candidate Marina Silva (above), it could be… “I hope that Rio+20 will become the Tahrir Square of the global environmental crisis and that international public opinion will be able to tell leaders that they cannot brush off the science,” Silva told AFP, referring [...]
Report Posits Population Control as Solution to Poverty in World’s Least Developed Countries
In the last months leading up to the Rio +20 summit, yet another report was released promoting population control as essential in the fight to eradicate world poverty. The report, published by the Royal Society of London, titled “People and the Planet” acknowledges that the world’s population has declined while pointing out that in the [...]
“Elders” come out in support of the Sustainable Development Goals”
Henrique Cardoso, the former president of Brazil responsible for the country’s miraculous economic recovery in the 1990s, and Gro Harlem Brundtland, the chairman of the UN’s famous Bruntdland commission, have come out in support of the SDG’s this week. We believe setting “sustainable development goals” that address the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of development [...]
Extra Negotiations lead to limited Success for UN Environmental Conference
After more than a week of extra negotiations on the final outcome document for the UN’s upcoming environmental conference in Rio de Janiero, little progress has been made. The UN commission charged with providing a negotiated document countries can agree upon during the Rio +20 conference at the end of this month was still a [...]
German Climate Scientist Says China’s One-Child Policy Was “Most Effective Climate Policy of the Last Decade”
Renowned German climate scientist Professor Hans von Storch responded to a question in a correspondence asking how an individual can contribute to reducing climate change. His reply revealing support for China’s one-child policy as a means to effect climate change is causing somewhat of a stir. Many climate change activists support population control programs, no surprise [...]
China’s Population Control Inspired by Ideas of the Club of Rome
Following the high-profile drama of Chen Guangcheng, Robert Zubrin, author of Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, explores the origins of the Chinese one-child policy; the country’s brutal population control machinery Chen Guangcheng has so resolutely opposed. While many are familiar with the ruthless measures to impose the one-child [...]