Worried About the Environment? The Useless Nitwits Have Your Back.

This morning in the Globe and Mail, I spied this headline:
"
New UN agency to manage environment"

Having just come off an unbelievable week, the prospect of a series of well-deserved belly laughs prompted me to read on.

"PARIS — Hundreds of scientists, business leaders, and non-governmental organizations have called for a new United Nations agency to manage the environment.
The new agency would transform the existing UN Environment Program, into “a fully-fledged international organization that is genuinely universal,” French President Jacques Chirac told delegates to the Citizens of the Earth conference, which was organized by his government."

Of course! Behind every addle-brained, half-baked, declaration of global control of an issue that obviously requires lots of speaking by self-important blowhards to rooms full of the 'concerned', who are so inspired that they're wringing their hands extra hard, you're bound to find a fwenchman with a plan.

“We know that humans are destroying, at an alarming rate, resources and balances that have enabled them to evolve and are determining their future,” he said. “We must admit to ourselves that we can no longer afford to be idle and that the risks and dangers are exacerbated with each passing day.”

But he can't seem to find the backbone to prevent the nightly car-b-ques occurring nightly in the arondisments that the mightly fwench government have surrendered to the 'youths of undefined orgin' who are committed to the destruction of western civilization. Plenty of volitile organic compounds being released into the atmosphere by those fires. Coupled with that gallic sense of hygene and the fwench tendency to share their useless opinions with anyone, whether or not they were solicited, and it sounds to me like the conference was held at the site of some of the worst offenses.

"Delegates at the meeting said UN efforts to protect the environment until now have been ineffective because of a lack of political commitment and because there is too much red tape. "

Yeah, that whole sovereignty thing is such a downer. I mean, can't these governements just realize that its for the chiiiillllllddrrenn(and the opportunity to take anything of value not nailed down)?

"Mr. Chirac said the new organization would be a “strong voice with universal recognition.” It would assess environmental damage, monitor various agreements to protect the environment, and promote technology to protect ecosystems."

Yes, certainly. The world needs more talk. Even Shrillery knows it.

"He also called for an international declaration that would make the right to a sound environment a universal human right."

Right on, Sparky. Good luck making that declaration a reality.

Why is it that power and delusions seem to walk hand in hand?