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Swarns,
Rachel L.
"World Development Forum
Begins With a Rebuke," New York Times.(27 August
2002). |
August
27, 2002
World Development Forum Begins
With a Rebuke
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 26 — Tens of thousands of officials,
environmentalists and advocates for the poor converged on this old mining
city today to devise an ambitious blueprint to promote development while
protecting natural resources.
Participants from all over the world flocked to the United
Nations' World Summit on Sustainable Development in flowing African robes,
Indian saris and pinstriped suits. They celebrated the spirit of global
solidarity and vowed to hammer out a plan to protect rain forests, to clean
polluted air and to help millions of people escape from poverty. |
Lemley,
Brad
"The New Ice
Age," Discover Magazine.(9 September 2002). |
The
New Ice Age
Worried about global warming? Talk to a few scientists at Woods Hole. Oceanographers
there are seeing big trouble with the Gulf Stream, which warms both North
America and Europe
By Brad Lemley
William Curry is a serious, sober climate scientist, not
an art critic. But he has spent a lot of time perusing Emanuel Gottlieb
Leutze's famous painting "George Washington Crossing the Delaware,"
which depicts a boatload of colonial American soldiers making their way
to attack English and Hessian troops the day after Christmas in 1776. "Most
people think these other guys in the boat are rowing, but they are actually
pushing the ice away," says Curry, tapping his finger on a reproduction
of the painting. Sure enough, the lead oarsman is bashing the frozen river
with his boot. "I grew up in Philadelphia. The place in this painting
is 30 minutes away by car. I can tell you, this kind of thing just doesn't
happen anymore." |
 Tony
Juniper, vice-chairman, Friends of the Earth "We feel that the summit
it being hijacked"
US rejects summit criticism, BBC World Service, (30 August, 2002, 00:09
GMT 01:09 UK Friday). |
Friday,
30 August, 2002, 00:09 GMT 01:09 UK
US rejects summit
criticism
The United States has strongly defended its record at the World Summit on
Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, following criticism from European
and developing countries.
American delegation leader Paola Dobriansky called the US a "leader"
in promoting development, and said the absence of President Bush at the
summit was not a sign of neglect.
Her comments came as Washington announced a series of international projects,
aimed at fighting hunger and increasing access to water and energy.
Meanwhile an American economist and senior United Nations adviser has accused
the rich world of failing poor countries. |
| What
impression do you get from the American press about the recent Earth Summit
in Johannesburg, South Africa? What was the impression of the press from
around the world? |
The
anniversary of the World Trade Center tragedy comes very closely after
the conclusion of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. Consider
the following reports from the BBC about the conclusion of that conference:
The BBC's Tom Heap "Neither police nor protocol could protect
Colin Powell once he was inside the conference hall"
US Secretary of State Colin Powell "The United States is taking
action to meet environmental challenges"
Ben Brown - "The summit was never supposed to end like this."
Why
do you think Colin Powell was jeered, booed and heckled at the largest
meeting in history of the world's heads of state in Johannesburg, South
Africa? What was the chant of the crowd?
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