Rio+20 Earth Summit: "As Useless as Tits on a Bull"?

My dad used to use that expression. I know it's crude, but it sure makes a point, doesn't it?

In this case, it's this June's Rio+20 Earth Summit in Brazil, with its focus on a "green economy" and poverty alleviation, that is going to be useless. Completely futile, in vain, to no avail, pointless, to no purpose, fruitless, unproductive and hopeless. You see, Rio+20 is not going to talk about climate change.

So, in the midst of the greatest threat ever to the survival of humanity and most life on Earth, this great gathering of nations is not going to discuss this threat. Hello? The only "green" economy is a zero-carbon economy, which is the only way to address the climate change emergency. And if we don't do that, then we've foreclosed on the future, let alone an economy that wants to pretend it's green. Here's the story.*

Back in January (2012), a Brazilian diplomat, Andre Correa do Lago, said that "climate change was too sensitive an issue for many countries, while sustainable development was something everybody could get behind [as though sustainable development is possible with catastrophic climate change hanging over our heads!]."

"'Climate change has very strong resistance from sectors that are going to be substantially altered, like the oil industry,' Correa do Lago said. 'The feeling we have, when we are discussing with such different countries, is that sustainable development is the right answer.' He said the refusal of many U.S. Republican candidates vying to challenge President Barack Obama in this year's elections to even acknowledge global warming was a problem highlighted the difficulty of addressing the issue in an international forum."

So here we go again letting the deniers and skeptics and American climate change a$$holes drive the international agenda while they drive the biosphere into oblivion. We are all so going to regret being such wusses when the climate change sh!t really starts hitting our fan. (You know, the rich white people's fan in North America.)

Please keep this in mind when June rolls around and nothing good or lasting or helpful comes out of Rio+20:

The only "green" economy is a zero-carbon economy.