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Prepared With the Help of Russia, China and, Of Course, Iran…

September 1, 2009 - 12:51 am - by Claudia Rosett
Hanoi Paris Hilton
2009-09-03 21:45:39

I was a resident enviro consultant for a UNDP outpost in SE Asia. The guy in charge of Environment (!) liked to have the windows open wide in his private office with aircons going full blast (about 15KW right there!). That combo of fresh tropical air with the slight frisson of arctic chill was just superb!

That’s part of how I became in due course an enviro insultant, and then somehow my client base (UN-family, Borld Wank, ADB, the other usual suspects) dried up. But for awhile I did land the occasional insultancy because there was zero institutional memory installed across those agencies.