Rio summit must yield new model: Brazil minister

"The upcoming Rio summit on sustainable development must yield a new model..."

Unfortunately, flying a bunch of people from all over the world and catering them food and coffee while they meet in 4-star hotels to discuss things may be a good way to reach concensus on old ideas, but it is not a very effective way to generate new ones.

As stated by one of our Generals " There is nothing new about the N.W.O. and it certainly has nothing to do with order" This is the mechanism to fund World control period.

As long as China and India are exempt from any form of treaties or agreements. It doesn't matter what emissions protocol we undertake. 60 percent of the emissions are coming out of the Third World and that's gonna rise over the next few decades where as the developed world sees a decline on emissions per capita, because we use fuels more efficiently or we use cleaner fuels such as gas instead of coal. The doomsdayers give us ten year cycles to do things because if not then the damage will be catastrophic come end of the decade. Just like they said we'd have no rainforests left by 2000. (The Amazon currently has over 80 percent of it's original forest cover). Deforestation is linked to poverty and poor economic conditions in the concerned countries and industrialized nations can meet all of the world's pulp, wood and paper needs with tree farms. Infact we have seen a net growth in forest in other parts of the world as we grow more food per acre (five times more than a hundred years ago) and we divert our attention to growing in areas best suited for it. What used to be farms in the Northeast United States for the last 150 years have grown back into forest and every year since millions of tourists come to see the leaves change color. And we have vehicles to farm our fields with. We no longer need beasts of burden to do farm work. Thus millions of acres of pasture land needed to feed them has reverted back into forest or open space. No clean air by 2000. Air quality today is better than it has been in the last 100 years and continues to improve overall, while we in America drive 3 times as much as we did just in the 70's, automobile emissions have declined drastically even with the V-8 powered behemoths we have on our roads now. Or we'd lose 50 percent of our species by 2000. (Not even close, For starters, the Endangered Species Act has done precious little to help endangered animals. Since the act's passage, seven American species have gone extinct. Meanwhile, while more than 1,260 species have been listed as "endangered" or "threatened," only 10 North American species have "recovered," often due to efforts unrelated to the Act). Our water is certainly cleaner than it has been for decades. Examining the challenge of collecting sufficient amounts of water in arid regions; wars will probably not erupt over water because fighting such wars is not cost effective (one week of war with the Palestinians, for instance, would cost Israel more than five desalination plants, according to an Israeli official) and improving technology will make methods such as desalination cheaper, whose price per gallon has been cut in half in the last ten years and expected to decline further. Life is better today than it has been in the scale of human history, it will certainly improve in the future.

Bwhaehohaehoohahoehoaeho....this new model wouldn't suggest the USA giving TRILLIONS of dollars away to everyone else, would it?

I thought there was a Brazilian model here?

These things can be decided via e mail, conference calls etc.. no need for expensive air fares, hotels, rental cars and expensive food all on tax payers money to discuss this thing. Too much waste of money and resources, no wonder things are always discussed and problems never solved.

More Time,energy,and money wasted on Al Gore's god to try to undermine the US economy with Silly Environmental regulation that is only designed to effect the USA.Obama Eats that stuff up.

I guess it's a case of do as I say, not as I do. They say we need better management of the environment, yet they are the ones raping the rain forests. People have been telling them for decades that their rate of rain forest destruction is unsustainable and of their responsibility to manage the environment and stop destruction of the rain forests.

Of all the 3rd world countries that are rapidly growing economically Brazil is the one to most embrace extreme materialism on a US scale. Shopping malls are THE place to be with huge arrays of goods that, by Brazilian wages, are often quite expensive. Brazilian women in particular are fanatics about fashion. It's ironic that this is all taking place under a government that likes to tout its socialist leanings and demand special consideration from the rich developed nations. At the same time the destruction of native forests in Brazil continues unabated driven by overpopulation by the poor and huge farms/ranches by the rich.

WE THE PEOPLE do not want or believe in the UN !

More socialist dogma from the people with the least to loose.

Anyone come up with a DOWN side to the earth returning to it's more typical warmer climate?

in other words, One World cummunism

Mmmmmmm Rio Models hgkggjgjhghjkgjhk

Looks like the 3rd world tin pots are working overtime, the global warming scam is not working as well as expected so they are looking for another way to get that pile of money.

Please clean your own house first . I suspect the Olympics are going to present a very large problem for saftey of guests visiting .

I would agree. They definitely need a new model...because that old battleaxe sure isn't one. I suggest they try Adriana Lima or perhaps Gisele Bündchen.

Unfortunately, the neoliberalism of 1992 has brought about the current economic climate. With more and more formerly underdeveloped nations now developing, the fight for limited natural resources will only continue to escalate. The close mindedness of liberals in this country, in regards to accessing our natural resources and the resources of friendly neighboring countries, will continue to drive this nation toward resource dependence from nations who continue to be antagonistic towards us. Liberalian is not a solution to our nations problems.........

An economic model where continuous growth rates above the natural rate of increase in population is doomed to failure because there's only so much material in the world to be used from production of economic goods.

translation: We want to tax the American people to pay for everyone's pet project around the world.