Rio+20 summit: activists aren't mourning Barack Obama's absence

Inter Press Service: When a reluctant George H W Bush, Sr, then US president, changed his mind and decided at the eleventh hour to address the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, he sounded defensive in his strong response to charges that the United States was one of the major powers responsible for the some of the world's worst environmental ills – from greenhouse gases to conspicuous consumption. "I didn't come here to apologise," Bush told world leaders in a defiant seven-minute speech, even as the IPS daily conference newspaper...

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