Reporting Live From the Clinton Global Initiative
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA on 09.26.07
TreeHugger is reporting live from the Clinton Global Initiative 2007 Annual Meeting at the Sheraton New York in Manhattan. The three-day event rustles up about 1,000 global leaders to examine the world's most-pressing and challenging issues, and "transform that awareness into tangible commitments to action." (If members do not keep to their commitments, they're not invited back the following year. This year, five unnamed parties were persona non grata. Major burn.)
The opening session, scheduled for 10 a.m. ET, will be chaired by former president Bill Clinton and focus on the need for global action. Joining him will be our man Al; Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank; President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines; President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan; and H. Lee Scott, Wal-Mart head honcho.
This will be followed by working sessions on education for girls; business/energy and climate change; maternal and newborn health, and poverty alleviation/wealth creation.
Oh, they also have mini-croissants. And some Hollywood actress named Angelina something-or-other.
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i hope someone will point out that the economy is a sub-system of the environment ... and that the pursuit of never-ending economic growth from an ever growing population who aspire to consume more and more, is the bottom line
you can only reverse out of a dead-end street
i hope someone will point out that the economy is a sub-system of the environment ... and that the pursuit of never-ending economic growth from an ever growing population who aspire to consume more and more, is the bottom line
you can only reverse out of a dead-end street
If only someone like Bill Clinton could be in a position of power from which he could effect real change - oh, wait. Wasn't he a co-worker of the "Earth in the Balance" author who wrote about the myriad assaults on the planet and the urgent need to address them - back in 1993? Wasn't Clinton the first president to refuse to join Kyoto? That organ-grinder's monkey is more interested in getting his leering mug before a star-struck crowd than in actually doing anything for the planet. Loud "pledges" are just so much more gratifying than actual, effective work and don't forget to tiptoe lightly around the delicate sensibilities of big business, pandering, uncritical media and the other triangulatees.