Word: rios
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...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 that she was circulating a petition in which...
...head of the 47-member U.S. delegation to the Earth Summit, William Reilly should get extra pay for hazardous duty. On opening day at the huge conference in Rio de Janeiro, the administrator of America's Environmental Protection Agency faced an aggressive global press corps that could hardly hurl its pointed questions fast enough. Why won't the U.S. sign the biodiversity treaty? Why did the U.S. insist on watering down the climate-change pact? Why do Americans consume so much? Isn't it hypocritical for America to call for protection of tropical forests while cutting down its own ancient...
...tried last week to help forge a compromise that would enable the U.S. to sign the treaty. But when he sent proposed changes in the pact to Washington, the White House flatly refused to reconsider its position -- a major embarrassment for Reilly in his dealings with fellow delegates in Rio...
Reilly was still smarting from that decision in Rio. Asked at a reception about the God Squad, he replied, with a touch of bitterness, that it was "a group of people, of which I am a minor divinity, which has the power to blow away a species...
...gist of Collor's disagreement with his former Environment Secretary goes right to the core of the Rio summit agenda. Lutzenberger refused to endorse Collor's version of "sustainable development" -- the notion that preservation of Brazil's rain forests and other natural resources is compatible with economic growth. The interim Secretary, a nuclear physicist named Jose Goldemberg, is a strong advocate of this vision of controlled development...