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Tony, I actually read the whole thing. Thanks for posting the link. I'd never read it from beginning to end before. I thought your outrage was because of all the repetitive politically correct legalistic gobbledygook that inflates what could be a two page document into a sixteen page mess. I would be onboard with that complaint. It looks like they divided into committees to come up with each section and nobody was too sure of where their area of responsibility ended. I suppose that with so many countries involved, you have to put up with this in order to get to a couple of actual agreements.

I see absolutely none of the things you see in it. "A single global entity to police the way every single person on this planet lives." The agreement specifically leaves it to each signatory to devise how they will meet the goals that they themselves set. It says this in about ten different ways. It does ask countries to report their progress so that a global assessment of progress can be made periodically. That's it. The international bodies it sets up are toothless. Almost nothing in the document goes beyond a statement of intent. I think you are mistaking a Yorkshire terrier for a tiger.