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The Rio+20 Conference Went from Good Intentions to the To-Do List from Hell

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Rio+20 had good intentions, but the outcome was conspicuously short of goals, writes Mac Margolis.

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In a city park girding the gray Atlantic ocean, dozens of people stood on line before a giant tent, each toting small bags of garbage.

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