Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-25-Speech-3-038"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of World Summit on Sustainable Development2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020925.1.3-038"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-25-Speech-3-0392
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlos Lage2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-30--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioners, I am reminded of the optimism caricatured by the French philosopher Voltaire in the person of Pangloss, which, in fact, derives from the philosophy of the German philosopher Leibniz, according to which 'everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds'. If Voltaire were to return here, however, he would also draw a caricature, certainly a very impressive one, of those that today think that everything is for the worst in the worst of all possible worlds. This almost phantasmagoric pessimism that affects many commentators, many politicians and many Members of this House is unjustified. It is unjustified because at the Johannesburg Summit, as I see it, indication was given of the right way forwards, the correct diagnosis was made, and the European Union acted correctly at the summit, and we should be congratulating it on this instead of being constantly critical. The summit pointed in the right direction but we must also take account of the fact that the rich countries are going to have to pay for the policies that were outlined in Johannesburg and that control mechanisms must be established to ensure, as has already been said, that words are translated into action. I would also say that the Johannesburg Summit served to reveal some of our fears and weaknesses in analysing the world’s problems. I wish to highlight only one of these, if I may, which is the issue of birth control and the world’s population. It makes no sense that this problem should not be addressed because we fear religious dogma, the type of dogma that Voltaire condemned, or because we fear being considered Malthusian. We all know that it is precisely where the population grows at a faster pace that we see more poverty and more degradation of nature. And, therefore, this issue of birth control, of the global regulation of the world’s population cannot be ignored in any discussion about the survival of the earth and about a more humane life for human beings."@en1

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