Inter Press Service: Just before the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, some of the industrial nations, and specifically the United States, were lambasted for their obscenely high consumption of the world's finite resources, including food, water and energy. The world was being gradually destroyed, environmentalists warned, by unsustainable consumption. Hitting back at critics, then U.S. president George H.W. Bush famously declared: "The American way of life is not up for negotiations. Period." The message,...
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