Journal bettiwettiwoo's Journal: How to Write about Pointless International Organizations 3
Laugh or cry. Your Choice.
Alan Beattie, via FT's Gideon Rachman, writes about the current G8 (... or whatever) meeting:
By reporters everywhere
An ineffectual international organisation yesterday issued a stark warning about a situation it has absolutely no power to change, the latest in a series of self-serving interventions by toothless intergovernmental bodies.
"We are seriously concerned about this most serious outbreak of seriousness," said the head of the institution, either a former minister from a developing country or a mid-level European or American bureaucrat. "This is a wake-up call to the world. They must take on board the vital message that my organisation exists."
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The intervention follows a resounding call to action in the communiqué of the Group of [number goes here] countries at their recent summit in a remote place no-one had previously heard of. The G[number goes here] meeting was preceded by the familiar interminable and inconclusive discussions about whether the G[number goes here] was sufficiently representative of the international community, or whether it should be expanded into a G[number plus 1, 2 or higher goes here] including China, India or any other scary emerging market country that attendees cared to name.
The story was given further padding by a study from an ambulance-chasing Washington think-tank, which warned that it would continue to convene media conference calls until its quixotic and politically suicidal plan to ameliorate whatever crisis was gathering had been given respectful though substantially undeserved attention.
I loved the yahoo headline today (Score:2)
Yeah that would be the problem, since the goal is to quit fucking up the climate, not keep changing it.
:-D (Score:2)
I am typing more for my comment, because this site's filtering system seems to think I need to.
Re: (Score:2)
Think I'm more like >oP