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...shots aimed at the epa chief are just a preview of what awaits George Bush when he joins more than 100 other world leaders this week for the culmination of the summit. The Brazilian press has already labeled the U.S. a "party pooper" and called Bush "Uncle Grubby." And many of the President's harshest critics in Rio will be fellow Americans. At the first day of the Open Speakers Forum, a meeting place for the 20,000 activists, scientists, spiritual leaders and other people on the periphery of the Earth Summit, environmentalist Sharon Rogers of Wright City, Mo., announced...
During the environment summit in Rio last week, a Brazilian group called Defenders of the Earth was updating its Lie-O-Meter on a billboard nearby. Purpose: to track "deceit, from 0 to 100" among participants. At week's end the U.S. delegation was scoring...
...years Brazilian authorities viewed ecological concerns with suspicion and scorn, as if they were part of an international plot to thwart the country's development. All that was supposed to change with the March 1990 inauguration of Fernando Collor de Mello, Brazil's first President with a green heart. Collor named Jose Lutzenberger, one of the world's foremost champions of rain-forest preservation, head of a new environment secretariat. The President also vowed to reverse decades of untrammeled development that destroyed 415,000 sq km (160,000 sq. mi.) -- an area the size of Iraq -- of the Amazon rain...
Collor's government stands accused of failing to fulfill some of its most important promises. Many conservation areas and national parks exist only on paper. Cattle ranchers, farmers and miners continue to burn, bulldoze and poison the forests. Brazilian environmental agencies still lack the staff and equipment they need to protect endangered flora and fauna. Foreign funds dedicated to Brazilian conservation efforts languish unused because the Collor government, plagued by corruption and staff turnover, has failed to develop projects that would make use of the money...
...official meetings leading up to the Earth Summit, Brazil's representatives argued that the developing world cannot let environmental concerns get in the way of the need to find homes and jobs for its citizens. In February, 800 representatives of Brazilian environmental groups, universities and government agencies signed the Vitoria Declaration, which, among other things, states that the developed world is responsible for global warming and that "Third World countries have the right to increase their consumption of energy to attend to their development needs...