Day 17

Anonymous

The [Rio] summit, in fact, went according to plan: indeed the outcome was inevitable from the start. ... Its secretariat provided delegates with materials for a convention on bio-diversity but not on free trade; on forests but not on logging; on climate but not on automobiles; ... on enabling the poor to achieve sustainable livelihoods but none on enabling the rich to do so; a section on women but none on men.

‘The earth summit debacle’ The Ecologist 22 (1992) 122 edited by E. Goldsmith, N. Hildyard, P. Bunyard and P. McCully