World set back 10 years by Bush's new world order, says Blair aide

Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Wednesday April 14, 2004

The Guardian

George Bush has had a "devastating impact" on global sustainable development and set the world back more than ten years, says Jonathon Porritt, the prime minister's senior adviser on the subject, today.

Writing in Guardian Society Mr Porritt, who is the chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, says it is hard to exaggerate the damage done to the planet by Mr Bush's drive for a "new world order".

On a whole series of issues including climate change, international aid, family planning, nuclear proliferation, trade and corporate responsibility, "staying true to a discredited model of extreme economic liberalism has set the world back a decade or more", says Mr Porritt.

He says it is not surprising that the rest of the world has done so badly because Mr Bush has given them the perfect "out" from their responsibilities.



I wonder how much longer Mr Porritt will have a job? Telling the truth can be a dangerous thing now a days. Or who knows, maybe he'll slit his own wrists?

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I'm a cynic. Ten YEARS? I say ten DECADES will be more like it, and THAT is contingent on getting that asshole OUT of office this year...

I think a lot of the damage is irreversible at this point. And just wait until we start running out of oil, then things are going to get really ugly if Bu$hCo is still in power.