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June 19, 2012

Rio+20 Will Accomplish Nothing ... Thankfully

Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail

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I have bad news and good news about this week's Rio+20 summit on sustainable development, which has been billed as the biggest United Nations conference of all time. The bad news is that it will accomplish nothing. The good news is that it will accomplish ... nothing. That is a relief, since what the summit is demanding would be bad for poor people.

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