
Not-so-bold-prediction time, the global moonbats kangaroo court will find “humanity” guilty.
(The Local) — Around 20 Nobel prize winners will preside over a mock courtroom in Stockholm on Tuesday, with the Planet Earth and humanity on opposing sides of the case, as part of a symposium to highlight global sustainability.
“It’s a civil court case to see whether we’ve breached our relations” with the planet, “and to see how to restore that relationship,” symposium chair Johan Rockström told reporters at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The “trial” will be one of the sessions at the third biennial Nobel laureate symposium on global sustainability — a three-day event that opened in the Swedish capital Tuesday.
In addition to the Nobel laureates, leading scientists and environmental research group heads were on site to draft a Stockholm Memorandum on the findings of the meeting, which will be presented Wednesday to the United High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.
“History will in any case judge us,” Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren told reporters, explaining the “trial” was actually about humanity judging itself with future generations in mind.
Mario Molina of Mexico, the winner of the 1995 Nobel Chemistry Prize who is a science and technology advisor to US President Barack Obama, told the news conference he hoped rationality, common sense and wisdomwould strengthen the planet’s case in the “symbolic” trial.
The Stockholm Memorandum will be considered by the UN panel, which was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and includes South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma and his Finnish counterpart Tarja Halonen and has been tasked with putting together a “new vision” on sustainable growth.
The panel will draw up a report with suggestions before the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.
