"We now have a 20-year history of defeats on this agenda, and there is a lot of defeatism around. Politicians are always reluctant to be linked to lost causes, and the struggles against poverty and environmental destruction now seem to fall into that category. Thus we sleepwalk towards terrible disasters—but that doesn’t absolve our leaders of responsibility. We didn’t hire them to follow; we hired them to lead.
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"One day, after many great tragedies have occurred, there will be a law against ecocide. But almost all the real culprits will be gone by then. "
Full article: Gwynne Dyer: Rio 20 culprits set stage for climate ecocide.
