Ronald Bailey's First Dispatch from the Rio +20 Earth Summit

More than two thousand corporate and bureaucratic functionaries gather at a luxury beach hotel at the Corporate Sustainability Forum in Rio de Janeiro in advance of the official United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20). Their goal: To somehow make money out of sustainable development. It turns out that the energy sector craves mandates, poor farmers want voluntary eco-labels, and natural capitalists don't believe in private property. Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey finds the sustainabilty samba somewhat less than credible.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Just like that river twisting through a dusty land.

[Trespassers W]

Well, that was a short article.

[Trespassers W]

Writing about Brazil without mentioning football or the samba is like writing about Czech without mentioning Kafka.

[Terr]

No doubt the luxury hotel is powered by sustainable energy sources such as unicorn methane and the words of barack obama.

[John]

I will start taking these people seriously when they start having video conferences in the name of lowering their carbon footprint. Sorry, but if you don't wear the hair shirt, you don't really believe what you say.

[Mike M.]

Block Yomomma treats members of the miilitary to lunch; then stiffs restaurant for the tab.

[Ken Shultz]

It turns out that the energy sector craves mandates, poor farmers want voluntary eco-labels, and natural capitalists don't believe in private property.

That's all Portuguese to me.

[dantofang]

Looks pretty legit to me dude, Oh yeah! Wow.

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[dantofang]

Oh wow, that looks pretty legit to me dude.

http://www.Anon-Post.tk