Johannesburg World Summit
on Environment and Development
A time to Decide about Our
Collective Future As Human Beings
by Jerry Brown
August 2002

"Here and now is where we-60,000 strong at the World Summit on Sustainable Development-can speak about our future and that of the other 6 billion people who are not here."

The latest World Summit on Environment is taking place this week in Johannesburg. It provides the perfect forum for people-from NGO's, from local governments and from national governments big and small--to face one another.
Here and now is where we-60,000 strong at the World Summit on Sustainable Development-can speak about our future and that of the other 6 billion people who are not here.
"Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course." That was the apocalyptic warning uttered at the time of the last world summit in 1992 by some 1700 scientists from 69 countries, including 99 of the 196 living Nobel laureates. In the ensuing ten years, corporate managers and political officials have mostly turned a deaf ear, accelerating their "massive tampering with the world's interdependent web of life." freefoto.com. . .

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