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Sustaining Poverty.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
Economy: The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg seems to be headed to the same place as the Rio de Janeiro summit in 1992: nowhere.
Not that the lack of results will come from lack of trying. Some 60,000 earnest delegates from governments and so-called NGOs non-governmental organizations are attending. They're trying to come up with a "plan for action" to create a world where all have food, clean water to drink and a reasonable income.
Nothing wrong with that. The only problem is that poor people already could have those things. Unfortunately, their governments, many of them attending the South Africa summit, have made it impossible.
Listening to the rhetoric, you wouldn't know that.
On opening day, South African President Thabo Mbeki set the tone, charging that most of the world's problems have been caused by wealthy nations organized "on the basis of a savage principle of survival of the fittest."
That's especially ironic coming from Mbeki, whose steadfast refusal to recognize that the HIV virus causes AIDS has led to the early deaths of thousands of South Africans in recent years.
His neighbor, Zimbabwe's ...
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