#Rio Declaration

The Rio Declaration is a ceremony in which nations vow to protect the Earth’s future while performing the ritual dance of cooperation in countless conference rooms. Offering prayers to sustainability, it ends as a stack of papers buried in the next day’s trash. Under the banner of environmental stewardship, participating states never forget their shields of national interest. It is the archetype of ideals meeting reality and then quietly keeping silent. Those promises are proclaimed loudly and dry as quickly as the ink that signed them.