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"Mr President, a few years ago the Latin American writer Julio Cortázar wrote a wonderful article, which I still have, entitled “The prostitution of words ". He was talking about democracy and said that the word ‘democracy’ had been used so much by those who were against democracy that the word had lost its virtue and value.
I think that the same thing is happening with sustainable development. The term appears in all European Union documents, government documents and, more importantly, in the documents of those who wish to destroy sustainable development and foster unsustainable development and a model of consumption that is going to prevent us from leaving Johannesburg with clear priorities and mechanisms for action, although, of course, I hope to be proved wrong.
I entirely agree with the reports by Mr Lannoye and Mr Papayannakis. The priorities have to be sustainable management of resources and changing production models. We cannot allow the 25 % of mammals, 11 % of birds and 15 % of plants that are in danger of extinction to disappear. Meanwhile, in terms of models of consumption, 86 % of global consumption corresponds to 20 % of the population. That is unsustainable.
Regarding another priority, eradicating poverty, Mr President, the results of the Monterrey Summit were meagre. Along with the World Bank, which has no members in our Group and which has calculated that in the next thirty years the number of poor people in the world will more than double, we have been saying for many years that unless action is taken to tackle poverty, marginalization, environmental degradation, conflicts, epidemics and migrations, there will be serious economic and political destabilisation at world level.
Eradicating poverty is therefore a priority, and the outcome of the last ten years is poor, as is the outcome of the Monterrey Summit, which gave 0.39% development aid for 2006. I hope, Mr President, that the outcome of the Johannesburg summit will not be a poor one, and I therefore trust that the delegation from the European Parliament will strongly defend what we are saying here."@en1
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