Clearing the Air - MPR's

Clearing the Air - MPR's insufferable Katherine Lanpher devoted an hour to the Earth Summit - the great environmental Kangaroo Court - this morning.

In the one-hour chat with "sustainable development" talking head Tom Tietenberg, one theme that kept popping up - "we have to examine what it is that separates the haves from the have nots". The usual suspects - SUVs, two-car households, large suburban ramblers - were cited.

Never mentioned by either Lanpher or Tietenberg was "totalitarian dictatorships that stifle the people's ability to succeed, and/or utopian socialist megalomocracies that inhibit the ability to create wealth".