Failed Environmentalism
Southern governments are not well-prepared for the international environmental negotiations that are taking place, and the non-governmental organisations have not been of much help either.
The volume of environmental literature coming out these days is quite impressive. In bookstores all over, environmental publications—the mild, the strong and the provocative—from the countries of both North and South vie for the readers´ attention. Sustainable development quotes from Mahatma Gandhi to Maurice Strong, and from Chief Seattle to Gro Harlem Brundt land, pop out of every page. There seem reason enough to believe that the problems of the environment worldwide are being tackled adequately and to be optimistic that we are about make fundamental changes in our unsustainable patterns of natural resource consumption.