Rio+20: The verbs tell the story.

The verbs tell the story. (In the text of the Rio+20 Outcome Document adopted by member states on 19 June 2012) the word “encourage” appears 50 times, the phrase “we will” only five; “support” is used 99 times, “must” just three.

This interesting observation was made by Geoffrey Lean of The Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/9341645/The-Rio-Earth-Summit-is-it-destined-to-fail-the-world.html