Summit Update
RW Johnson writes from Jo'burg (via TechCentralStation, who have yet another special section on the summit).
Among other things, he believes that the summit is too diverse:
Part of the problem is that this is a summit about everything. According to whom you talk it is a meeting about global poverty, trade liberalization, development finance, water supplies, debt forgiveness, housing, health, aid, climate change, alternative technology, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, education, over-population, the preservation of tropical forests, wetlands and coastal eco-systems, wild life conservation, animal rights, access to affordable medicine, intellectual property rights, the brain drain of Third World doctors and nurses to the West, inequality, food security, waste re-cycling, intellectual property rights, economic growth, agriculture, energy resources, global emissions and global warming, desertification, sanitation, bio-diversity and food security -- for starters.
Also on the sceptical wing, although he does a great job of summarizing the issues, is Ronald Bailey (via Instapundit).
The Daily Summit has been very sparse the last two days.
But The Sun (bless them) thunders from its front page (lavishly illustrated):
THE sickening champagne and caviar lifestyle being enjoyed by Earth Summit delegates was exposed yesterday.
They are gorging on mountains of lobster, oysters and fillet steak at the Johannesburg conference — aimed at ending FAMINE.
And so it goes on.... One suspects this is going to be the theme of the summit, at least until some juicy riots kick in (scheduled for Saturday), so I'm going to avoid the theme from now on. Alexandra Township must be reeling from all the TV crews.
12:22:10 PM 
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