GOOD LINKS - Jo'burg is HUGE
As you'd expect an Earth Summit to be.Good for them - the politicians, ngos, bureaucrats, ecologists--just all of them! Yeay they're for the good of us all and goodonem!
Elsewhere, and in this week before that Summit an International Ecological Conf. of a more dedicated kind got together. I'm here to point you to a couple of specialists whose vital work for the environment and sustainability deserves a much wider understanding.
You'll find them at:
'Science-in-the-City' - http://jsp.antville.org - title:
Temperatures - Now or mebbe Never..? AND
Robert Ayres Begs to Differ and Makes More Sense.

THERE'S A STOUSH IN THE HOUSE..
The Consumer Federation of America today stepped up its fight against
pending bankruptcy legislation (HR 333) that would force more people to repay their debts. The org. released a study showing that credit card companies, which have lobbied furiously for the bill, sent out 5 billion solicitations in 2001, up from 3.5 billion the year before. "Credit card issuers are shamelessly escalating their marketing and
available credit to strato-spheric levels while demanding that Congress give them relief by making it harder for consumers to declare bankruptcy," said Travis Plunkett, the federation's legislative director. Given the
state of the economy, he said, "Congress couldn't pick a worse time to make it more difficult for families to get back on track financially." -[CQ]