Is Sustainability a UN Plot?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/activists-fight-green-projects-seeing-un-plot.html?ref=us

A way of life and a way of understanding the world and our place in it - how and when is a change in perspective necessary? What do you, what do we, really want?

I hope to follow up on this with some commentary about perspective and point of view and environmental discussions. I am reading The Gutenberg Elegies and it seems to have some closely related content.