“Former Chief Government Scientist Professor Sir John Beddington has accused EU policymakers of misusing the precautionary principle in their approach to pesticides such as neonicotinoids.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Precautionary principle
Former chief UK scientist says precautionary principle could reduce crop yields 25%
Posted in Pesticides, Precautionary principle
Supplements exempt from Prop 65 rules in California
Companies selling dietary supplements containing lead have convinced a California Superior Court judge that chemicals occurring naturally in foods do not count as chemical exposure for consumers and are exempt from Proposition 65’s warning label requirements. Continue reading
Posted in Dietary Supplmts., Precautionary principle
Argentine Locals Want Power Transformers Out of Neighborhoods
Limits on electromagnetic radiation emissions by power stations in Argentina do not respect the precautionary principle. Continue reading
Posted in EMF, Precautionary principle
Tagged anti development, irrational fears, medical superstition
Papua New Guinea’s seabed to be mined for gold and copper
Government approves world’s first commercial deep-sea mining project despite vehement objections over threat to marine life Continue reading
Posted in Development, Mining, Precautionary principle
Resolutions Made at Rio+20 Should not be Taken as a Sign of Progress
Really? I thought the mealy-mouthed empty nonsense a great improvement over previous efforts. Definite progress. Continue reading
Tim van Gelder: Sustainability demands public wisdom
Sigh… Actually Tim, Australia is still pretty much a blank sheet, waiting for us to terraform into an environment that suits us better. Once we have done so we can sustain anything we want. There is nothing magical about the way it was before we started improving it any more than there is some special quality about its previous desperately unproductive state.
We were a country of nation builders but constant white-anting by the green left has eroded us to a collection of effete worriers, too uncertain to manage a trip to the corner store. That’s not ‘public wisdom’ but societal sabotage. Continue reading
Lorne Gunter: World Cooling To Global Warming
As the climate-change theory crumbles, expect its supporters to be more vocal in its defence, more insistent that the science is ironclad. Like the cultish followers of any faddish religion when it nears the end of its fashionableness, they will proclaim their views even more vociferously and denounce more forcefully all those who disagree. But increasingly, their warnings of impending doom and their character attacks on their opponents will be performed before empty houses, as in Rio. Continue reading
Gary Hunt: Rio+20 Economic Reality Check
Against the backdrop of wobbling economies more than 130 world leaders arrived for the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development where the mood was just as surly as the global economy. Continue reading
Posted in Agenda 21, Development, Environmentalism, Green hell, Precautionary principle, Property rights, Sovereignty, Sustainability, UN
Tagged global governance, rio+20
Gwynne Dyer: Perpetrators will not pay for crimes against planet
This week’s item from the rubber room: Continue reading
Christopher Monckton of Brenchley: Don’t worry about the ickle birdies
“BUT what about the ickle birdies?” wailed the ancient, off-blonde representative of the planet’s indigenous peoples in the shapeless, grimy, crumpled eco-sackcloth shift that is de rigueur this season among the female of the species here at the shapeless, grimy, crumpled Rio conference center. Continue reading
Terence Corcoran: Post Rio+20 Sustainable Development: RIP?
Executive at IISD writes devastating, almost despairing critique of Rio+20. “We have come to a sorry pass,” says Mark Halle in a commentary on last week’s conference Continue reading
Lord Monckton: Rio+20 Hypocrisy and UN/Eco-Fascist Psychological Warfare Against Children
Alex Jones interviews Lord Christopher Monckton on the hypocrisy of the UN’s Rio+20 conference and the on-going eco-brainwashing agenda against children and youth to train them to hate humanity and freedom and exalt totalitarianism in the name of saving “Mother Earth. Continue reading
RIO+20: Side agreements pitched as the real meat behind Earth Summit
This year’s reprise of the international Earth Summit here produced hundreds of side agreements that U.N. officials, diplomats and activists cited as evidence that the conference wasn’t the washout many claim. Continue reading
Richard Black: Rio summit ends with warning on corporate power
The UN sustainable development summit in Brazil has ended with world leaders adopting a political declaration hammered out a few days previously. Environment and development charities say the Rio+20 agreement is too weak to tackle social and environmental crises. Gro Harlem Brundtland, author of a major UN sustainable development report 25 years ago, said corporate power was one reason for lack of progress. Continue reading
Ileana Johnson Paugh: Environmental Floundering at failed Rio+20 Summit
The much-hyped Rio+20 Summit in Brazil has ended. The UN Conference on Biodiversity, aptly named, “The Future We Want,” (we being the environmentalist NGOs and other UN affiliates) was met with vociferous protests from thousands of women who were joined by hundreds of men. Continue reading
Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin: Rio+20’s expensive wish list
$1,325 per American family for U.N. bureaucrats Continue reading
The New Eco-Scare: We’re All Gonna Die!
Brian Sussman covers Rio U.N. conference 20 years after Agenda 21′s birth Continue reading
Melodrama of the moment: No jobs on a dead planet: summit
World leaders and business chiefs have accepted there are no jobs on a dead planet, at the end of a three-day environment summit in Rio de Janeiro. Continue reading
Posted in Agenda 21, Climate Change, Eco-imperialism, Environmentalism, Precautionary principle, Property rights, Sovereignty, Sustainability, UN
Tagged anti development, climate hysteria, global governance, greenie obstructionists, hatred of humans, irrational fears, misanthropy, rio conference, rio+20
Rio+20: Take science seriously and change the process
Now with that we can agree. Take science seriously, expunge the NGOs and ‘civil society’ horseshit and get on with solid development for the benefit of humanity and the environment. Not what these clowns have in mind though. Continue reading
Rio+20: We do not need more global sustainability conferences
“Global sustainability conferences no longer fulfil a useful purpose, considering the existing dense institutional framework.“
Wait until they realize there was never any useful purpose for these gabfests in the first place. Continue reading
