"Scientists" call for fundamental governance overhaul

[Salsasas]

Scientists call for fundamental governance overhaul to ensure Earth's sustainability

A group of the world's leading environmental scholars are sounding the alarm that human societies need to transform their national and international environmental institutions into a more coherent and robust planetary stewardship model in order to steer away from rapid and irreversible changes to the Earth's subsystems.

University of Toronto political scientist Steven Bernstein is one of the authors of a paper which appears in Science on March 16, 2012.

In the article, 32 international scholars warn that incremental change is not sufficient to bring about societal change at the level and with the speed necessary. "Structural change in global governance is needed, both inside and outside the United Nations (UN) system and involving both public and private actors."

Among their recommendations:

* Reform and upgrade the environmental agencies and programs of the UN to ensure a strong environmental organization with a sizeable role in agenda-setting, norm-development, compliance management, science assessment and capacity-building.

* More strongly integrate the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainable development from local to global levels and create a new Sustainable Development Council that gives special predominance to the largest economies – the Group of 20 countries – as primary members that hold 50 per cent of the votes, with the rest distributed among smaller states.

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Gotta centralize decision making or polar bears will die!

[Ry]

Environmentalist need to be extinct.

[Doronjo]

In that same issue of Science, they have a report titled: "Sexual Deprivation Increases Ethanol Intake in Drosophila"!!!
(Drosophila is a fruit fly)


Professor Bernstein is director of the Master of Global Affairs Program. which: "Establishes a historical, cultural, economic, legal, and political narrative and critical analysis of the global system, its institutions and networks (whether intergovernmental, private, not-for-profit, or hybrid). The course is designed to give students a broad narrative to enable them to contextualize contemporary developments so as to distinguish what is genuinely new from what is not. Students will also develop conceptual tools to understand how and why the current global order developed as it did, emphasizing the conditions that produced political, economic, and legal institutions in the international arena after World War II. Proceeding historically, it will introduce them to some of the most powerful forces that shaped the international system over the past century and spurred the processes of globalization that define the contemporary era."
http://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/mga/c ... ourses.htm

[Halfcrazedhoser]

Environmentalist need to be extinct.

Or at least remove the Mental. I for one, like the idea of doing good things for the environment. Note, that is good things, not feel good things.

[ledskof]

I like doing things for the environment too. But expanding govt power is never the answer to any freaking thing. Everything the govt puts its hands on gets worse.

And I am not in support of holding a gun to other peoples heads to get them to do what I believe about environment.

Want to help the environment? Get rid of the govt supported stranglehold of the energy market and let free market come up with new solutions.