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"Mr President, sustainable development is a nice idea. It has the pleasant aroma of the Norway of Dr Brundtland, who invented it 40 years ago. It is a notion from the good old days, from the Club of Rome, from zero growth. It is a new version of the old idea of Pastor Malthus. At the banquet of humanity, there is not enough room for all of the generations. We must therefore restrict ourselves, because the ice is melting, the water is rising, the greenhouse effect is going to suffocate us, the sun is going to burn out and raw materials are going to run out because the Chinese are consuming everything.
In fact, the only thing that is sustainable is under-development. Look at Africa! The only sustainable thing is poverty, which is a socially transmitted disease passed on from generation to generation. Development, on the other hand, is purely provisional. The stone age did not come to an end because of a lack of stones, but because of the invention of bronze. The oil age will also come to an end, not because of a lack of oil, but because we will move on to the age of fusion or of hydrogen. In short, sustainable development is an absurd notion, dreamt up by the rich to explain to the poor that, in order to save humanity in the future, they must go without today."@en1
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