From Rio to Copenhagen: The Earth Summit’s Legacy
In May-June 1992, this correspondent was jammed cheek to jowl with 30,000 greenies in a global mosh pit known as the United Nations Earth Summit. From that initial event in Rio...
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Shackling Planet Earth: Clinton’s Earth Day ’93 Address
Ignoring the overwhelming, and steadily growing, body of scientific evidence that the global-warming "crisis" is nonexistent, President Clinton issued an environmental "clarion call" (his term) to the nation in his Earth...
Socializing at Rio: Socialists Run the Earth Summit
At the U.S. Press Center in the luxurious Rio Sheraton, a young reporter slammed a telephone down with an expletive. "I can't believe this guy!" he said to nearby colleagues, referring...
ECO ’92: Launching Pad for International Global Governance
The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro was history's largest gathering of world leaders and environmentalists. Maurice Strong, executive secretary of the conference, said, "This is...