He called for immediate technology transfer from the West to the Third World, to allow development based on clean technology — stressing the need to “reject intellectual property rights”.

funds should not be distributed through the World Bank, which was trying to regain legitimacy by portraying itself as a “climate bank” while continuing to push fossil-fuel-driven development.

Confronting global poverty and climate change means confronting US power.
“I don’t think the world needs US leadership”, he said. “They should be more humble.”

Whether the US achieves its goals “is where we, as civil society come in”, Bello said, suggesting that, by making intervention costly for the US, civil society could encourage a “new US isolationism”.

The struggle is, he stressed, global. “The world needs a vacation from the messaianism of the US … A few decades of a self-absorbed US would be very good for the world.”

Before the planet has a rest from humans.

What is laissez-faire?

In political terms it is frequently used to mean non-interference in the affairs and particularly problems of another state, a form of interested detachment. It's not so much "I don't care" more like a recognising that the problems are best left alone; interfering could make things worse but if left alone the problem may resolve itself.

How many of your problems go away when ignored?

What is laissez-faire?

The GOP economic platform 1920 to 2008 (and if McCain wins, beyond).

How many of your problems go away when ignored?

It's not so much "I don't care" more like a recognising that the problems are best left alone; interfering could make things worse but if left alone the problem may resolve itself.

Mostly the ones I created by overreacting and being too pushy.