Stumbling around in blogerdom today, I came a cross this article by Richard Kahn regarding the recent World Summit on Sustainable Development. (Warning: serious political bent here. Read no further if you don't want to shatter your image of me.)

Richard posts his thoughts and musings on the Vegan Blog: The (Eco) Logical Website. While I am not a vegan (or even a vegetarian,) I highly recommend this blog to keep up with what's current regarding the environment.

Since I can't seem to get the link to wind up right on the appropriate post, scan the page for the date Tuesday, September 03, 2002 and the entry entitled:
A Radical Plan to Save the Summit: Don't Save the World, Save Yourselves

The first two paragraphs sum it up nicely:

"The summit is now officially a disaster and a failure. There were low hopes going in and there will be even less coming out.

The United States has been made into the world's enemy, as the E.U., Russia and China have teamed up with developing nations to paint America as the neo-liberal giant that seeks only to rape the environment and labor at any cost in order to make its books come out right."

Worth a read!