Maurice Strong advises folk to ignore Glenn Beck

By Judi McLeod:

The self-professed “planet’s leading environmentalist” is a master at Public Relations. In his latest PR stunt, Strong denies he wants to rule the world, insisting: “What I do believe is that we need a system of global governance through which nations can cooperate and deal with issues they cannot deal with alone.” (guardian.co.uk, June 23, 2010). “Maybe that statement is too sophisticated for some, but it shouldn’t be.”

Maybe some expert in doublespeak could explain to us what Strong is now saying.

In any case, Strong could have fooled many more than GB.

In his own words, Strong told hundreds of thousands at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, “The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful.” (Link)

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