Subj : Re: 40 years, and counting!
To   : Alejandro Filimonchuk
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Thu Apr 25 2024 10:39 am

Alejandro,
 
AF> Yeah, but we dont celebrate that here (not at population level, I mean...
AF> regular people dont even know about it)... of course we are interested in
AF> our beloved world, but in other ways (and, sadly, we got more urgent -at
AF> least for us- troubles, like 50% of poverty right now).
 
I will now make one of my famous statements ...
 
20-25 years ago I ran projects for the UN in preparation for the Rio+10 
conference in Johannesburg, the 10 year review of the 1992 UNCED United Nations 
Conference on Environment and Development from Rio.
 
Here we had been flown to a super-luxury resort in Vail Colorado, money 
obviously is no problem for the UN, with several heads of government at 
prime-minister or even president level. The meeting was chaired by sir Crispin 
Tickell (Google him if you want) ... I think the most intelligent person I have 
met in my life ... He sat down and when he opened his mouth you knew you had to 
shut up because something was about to happen.
 
Sir Crispin asked some 20 people there what were the most pressing environment 
problems of our times. And as expected, all these career politicians launched 
into speeches about whatever, even getting close to the dress-code of Brigitte 
Bardot (mind you, this was 25 years ago).
 
When it was my turn, I said "I have list of 5" and everybody figured I was 
going to embark upon a list of stuff propagated by silly Greens ...
 
   Poverty
   Hunger
   Human Rights
   War
   Overpopulation
 
And I told the gentlemen around as long as these 5 points (and probably others) 
were not addressed we would not be able to deal with Climate Change, Drinking 
Water, Refugees, Desertification ... Considering that more than 80% of the 
world's population suffers from one, several or all of the 5 mentioned points 
it is hard to believe that direct input into Climate Change solving measures 
will not be swamped by all the rest...
 
The words of those career politicians sounded so hollow ...
 
Eventually I went dining with Sir Crispin and we went hiking. He passed in 2022 
....
 
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