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Bill
Deckhand
Hey,
My name is Bill and I have been
working for Greenpeace sporadically in various capacities
since 1993. I come from the US, originally California. Currently,
I am the assistant engineer on the MV Esperanza.
I left the Army in 1990 certain
that the US was spearheading the charge toward global demise,
and in far too many ways compelling the rest of the world
to run in the same direction. I knew that I needed to do work
that would help curtail our current trend toward our own annihilation.
I have little hope for this
Earth Summit and I have the previous Earth Summit in Rio and
Kyoto to back up my pessimism. All such meetings seem to end
up the same. The US will take the most myopic, self interested
(big business interested), and despicable stands on any and
all environmental and social justice issues. Once it is established
that the US is again safely playing the 'Bad Cop' the European
delegations so inclined will have the luxury of serving their
own business interests while at the same time acting as if
they would have loved to have made all kinds of eco-friendly
and benevolent people centered changes, but the US stone-walled
and bullied them. In the end there will be a few flowery agreements
big on rhetoric and nil on real change. These agreements will
have no specifics in terms of results and will be written
in such a way that a corporate entity will surely profit from
their failure. I think that if we ever want to have a just
and equitable society at large corporate power must be curtailed.
All power to the people.
- Bill
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