We should refute the idea that big business can be made 'green'

Socialist Resistance pilot issue October 2002 | page 14

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... .. he World Summit on Sustainable

(WSSD) Johannesburg ended on fossil fuels and 'hopefully' to be ratified by December. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity was also weakened.

The document starts with a long sec..... • • free trade. This is certainly the tenor of the whole implementation programme, which views the road to sustainable development as being through removing barriers to trade and foreign direct investment.

This means that when the much-trumpeted issue of sanitation water access is discussed, the emphasis is on large-scale projects such as desalination (making There are actually huge environmental and political

technological fix. one place 'fog harvesting' when the stress should be on small-scale low-cost schemes to serve tens of thousands of poor villagers.