Healing the earth? (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) (Environment - 1992) From: Discover | Date: January 1, 1993| Author: Luoma, Jon R. | COPYRIGHT 1993 Discover. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THE UNITED NATIONS Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro last June was promoted as the greatest environmental diplomacy show on Earth, and it lived up to its billing. On the one hand, the Earth Summit sometimes degenerated into a three-ring political and media circus (with, for example, the Brazilian press characterizing President Bush as "Uncle Grubby"); on the other, the event did amount to the most important international attempt yet to heal the planet. <...

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