After 2 weeks South Africa, back in France, where september is calling for automn, and the media is preparing for a big 11/9 commemoration.
Read a great analysis of the double-tongued speak of the American Administration : able to forge a coalition to chase the Taliban in 1 month, now preparing to drive off the Iraqi’s and « protect » the world’s oil resources, and yet so absent of the World Summit on Sustainable development…
We, as normal citizens of the world, should just sit still and applaud this total disrespect for our institutions and international law and order ?
Why didn't Bush come to Johannesburg to face the reality on 5 pressing issues: water, energy, health, agriculture an biodiversity? Beecause he was going to be the target for all the activists? Fear? The most powerful man of the world does not want to face the 191 heads of State and Government, his peers?
Before we get to cynical, let us remember that 11/9 was a terrible day, may it never happen again, let the decision makers wisen up to prevent this from happening again. Let’s just not remember the course of actions that created the enabling circumstances for this horrible event.
May the wise lead with wisdom, and may we all have the wisdom to look through the smokescreens, and the fake reality that’s sometimes being pulled over our eyes.
The reality – for today alone - is that another 20.000 persons are going to die from the lack of water and sanitation and food. Half of them are children and never heard about NY…
Johannesburg was a step on the road, it's up to every one of our Governments to implement the decisions made there and in Rio...
