Maurice Strong — hissssss!

1992 was the year of change for me. The LA riots, er rebellion had me in a funk – Marxist revolution yay! looting and racial murder no! (As hard as I tried I just couldn’t view the Korean shopkeepers as THE MAN.) So, the world gathered at Rio to finally get global about the environment. Watching C-SPAN, I was quite impressed at how *reasonable* the Bush negotiating position was. Gro Harlem Brundt, the striking redheaded English fluent Socialist prime minister of Norway would have nothing of it. The United States was selfish and greedy, only caring about its own economic well being. (Me: huh? what does this have to do with saving the rainforest?) Imagine my surprise when two weeks later the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries announced the resumption of whaling. Greenpeace: crickets. CNN: crickets.

Meanwhile, General Secretary of the Rio Summit, one Maurice Strong was attempting an epic water grab in sweet home Colorado – 1 million acre feet of water from the San Luis valley aquifer. Originally proposed as a brewery advertised to bring several hundred jobs to one of the country’s poorest counties; the plan expanded in December, 1992 to selling water to Colorado Springs and other front range cities.

So, Ms. Brundt is today the Secretary General of the World Health Organization, Mr. Strong is in quasi hiding after his implication in the Iraq food for oil scandal. Little Konyok long ago cancelled his Greenpeace membership …