Twenty years after the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, the Rio+20, to take place in Rio again in under 13 months, is shaping up to be a critical event in the planet’s fate.

ETC Group’s Jim Thomas explains how, on the road to Rio+20, the hijackers (bankers and largest corporations) are already seizing the reins, why a hollow “green economy” amounts to a Trojan horse for ongoing destruction-as-usual, and what is behind the twin magic potions peddled by corporate execs and politicians as climate solutions: “markets” and “technology”.

People from all walks of life need to know this.  A planetary revolt is necessary to get the profiteers off of our backs, and the high priests of techno-fixes off their pedestals.