For the organisers, however, the conference was a success. We will never have to wage war over diminishing supplies of knowledge. Meanwhile, at the closing press conference, he tried to force through this optimism by shamelessly twisting the words of those who had pointed out some of the shortcomings of the conference. Using the Greenpeace press release as an example, one which deplored the declarations' lack of vision and concrete measures, he tore out of context a few sentences and charged skeptics of painting a positive canvas with a negative brush. This last great act of manipulation, sadly, merely demonstrated that nothing was learned from the conference.
Words exist, but they stop short of true commitment.
And the notion of compromise, with the very same who have repeatedly shown bad faith and who are directly responsible for the mess we now find ourselves in, merely attests to the victory of neo-liberalism over the world of science. All Rights Reserved.