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"en.20020227.6.3-081"2
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"Mr President, the right-of-centre government in my home country, Denmark, has today appointed an internationally recognised con man, a Mr Lomborg, as leader of the government’s so-called Institute for Environmental Assessment and in that way taken a major step towards abolishing any kind of sustainable development. Through its verbal manoeuvrings, euphemisms and concealments, the EU's Council Presidency is more elegant at overcoming social and global conflicts, but the overall result is the same. It is claimed, for example, that the integrated transport systems programme is of benefit to the environment, but the development of the EU’s motorway network since the Treaty of Maastricht was adopted ten years ago has, alone, led to a 15% increase in traffic-related CO2 emissions, and that is quite independent of the political resolutions to reduce total emissions. There is nothing in the programmes to suggest radical changes. The summit programme represents everything but sustainable development, and that is true not only in an environmental perspective. What, then, of global social and economic sustainability? What Barcelona is mainly about, of course, is consolidating and developing the EU countries’ share of world economic domination. It is not only the environment that is being sacrificed, it is the great majority of the world’s population. The link between the EU’s full-blown capitalism and the political and military oppression it practises is frighteningly clear – only not to the EU élite."@en1
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