{"id":2169,"date":"2009-12-17T07:26:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2009-12-17T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T12:30:14","slug":"maurice-strong-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/17\/maurice-strong-rides-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Strong rides again"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time, he’s leading the charge to enable more mob intimidation<\/a> of governments:<\/p>\n

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Maurice Strong, the self-confessed \u201cworld\u2019s leading environmentalist,\u201d recently wrote that \u201cOur concept of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified.\u201d This would be less of a concern if Mr. Strong had not also been instrumental in allowing NGOs inside the Rio\/Kyoto\/Copenhagen process.<\/p>\n

Mr. Strong himself hasn\u2019t been so prominent since the Iraqi oil-for-food fiasco, but he is involved in something called The Global Observatory, GO, an organization designed to act as \u201ca catalyst, bridging the gap between those responsible for making the decisions at [Copenhagen] and the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

GO was set up by Jos\u00e9 Maria Figueres, a former President of Costa Rica. Exactly what Mr. Figueres has in mind when he talks about \u201cbringing the public into negotiations\u201d is clear from a clip available on YouTube, in which he frankly admits that the key to getting the \u201cright\u201d decisions is using NGOs to assemble mobs to pressure politicians. Mr. Figueres says that he\u2019s not willing to leave the future of his children in the hands of the 1,500 negotiators at Copenhagen, so his plan was to set up a \u201ctent\u201d at the meeting in which there would be scientific experts (He mentions Mr. Hansen). If such scientists declared that, say, Costa Rica was \u201cbacktracking,\u201d then GO would get on the phone to select NGOs, who could have a mob outside the presidential palace in 45 minutes. This would result in a call to the country\u2019s environment minister in Copenhagen to change their position.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This time, he’s leading the charge to enable more mob intimidation of governments: Maurice Strong, the self-confessed \u201cworld\u2019s leading environmentalist,\u201d recently wrote that \u201cOur concept of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified.\u201d This would be less of a concern if Mr. Strong had not also been instrumental in allowing NGOs inside the Rio\/Kyoto\/Copenhagen process. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,65,84,53],"tags":[245,39,442],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-environment","category-government","category-politics","tag-climatechange","tag-junkscience","tag-ngos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-yZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}