Earth Summit
Business as usual By Hannah Wood and Matt Cooper Early September saw a disgusting spectacle. Sixty thousand delegates descended on the rich centre of Johannesburg. They said they had come to "save the earth". In fact government leaders and business leaders crammed the market restaurants. Only the marginalised NGOs had any kind of claim to represent us, the workers and poor of the world. This was the ruling classes of the world getting together to talk about its problems and demonstrating its inability to solve them The Johannesburg summit was the follow up to a 1992 conference held in Rio. And...