agenda 21-A Global Economic Disaster in the Making-1

8/7/2019 agenda 21-A Global Economic Disaster in the Making-1

1/5

YOU ARE HERE: LIFE AND SCIENCE ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT AGENDA 21: A GLOBAL ECONOMIC DISASTER IN THE MAKING

YOU SHOULD FOLLOW US

Exclusive to Right Side News:

Listening to the local news on the radio recently, I heard a report about how newly elected

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz plans to save $8 million by, among other

things, merging the Office of Sustainability wi th the Department of Environmental

Protection and Resource Management.

Office of Sustainability? In the county?

According to the story, The new agency will be renamed the Department of Environmental Protection

and Sustainability.

The Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability

A county government hasits own EPA? You must be kidding.

No, unfortunately not. Were from the government and were here to help.

Baltimore Countys Office ofPlanning defines sustainability as Meeting the needs of the present

without compromising the ability of current and future generations to meet their own needs. Doesnt

that sound nice!

I checked some of the other county websites.Carroll Countys Sustainability Plan defines sustainability

as: meeting the requirements of social, environmental, and economic circumstances without

compromising the ability for future generations to meet the same need.

Montgomery Countys says: To live sustainably, one strives to meet the needs of the present without

compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (my emphasis). People living

sustainably recognize the fundamental and inextricable interdependence between the economy, the

environment, and social equity, and work to promote each to the benefit of all.

Oh wonderful!

Howard Countys Office of Environmental Sustainability has similar blather. I didnt look further, but you

get the idea.

A curious coincidence perhaps, but these humble county governments definitions of sustainability

look amazingly similar to the UN definition:

Of course it is no coincidence.

This definition was first articulated in a 1987 report of the United Nations World Commission on

Environment & Developmenttitled Our Common Future. (See p. 24.)

This has come to be known as the Brundtland Commission. It was chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland,

Norways socialist former Prime Minister, who also served as vice-chair of the Socialist International.

It is worth mentioning here that Carol Browner, President Obamas Energy and Environment Czar,

also served on the Socialist International s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, although her

name was stripped from the masthead the minute she got that appointment. Why?

The Brundtland Commission included Maurice Strong (Canadas version of George Soros, an

exceedingly corrupt oil billionaire who, like Soros, has called for the destruction of the West), WilliamRuckelshaus (first head of the EPA the only American) and luminaries from such enlightened states

a s Zimbabwe, Communist China, the USSR, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Cote DIvoire. These are

environmental paradises to emulate for sure, but somehow they left out the important states of Togo

and Burkina Faso. How could they?

In any event, "Sustainable Development" is a distinctly and entirely socialist idea, and it varies

from typical socialist rhetoric only in the metaphors used. It demandsredistribution of land,

resources and private property into government hands. One particularly odious quote:

Agenda 21: A Global Economic Disaster in the

Making

Sustainable Development is development that meets the needs of the present without

compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

TUESDAY, 04 JANUARY 2011 00:00 JAMES SIMPSON

Custom Search

Search

LATEST L & S NEWS

EDITORIALLIFE AND SCIENCEWORLDUSFRONTPAGE

Sunday, Jan 23rd Last update 07:55:38 PM GMT Headlines: Members RSS Twitter
http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=48158&m=3&c=1http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad18173a-map.cgi/ns/v=2.3S/sz=120x600A/http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=48158&m=6&c=1http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212632/life-and-science/health-and-education/obamacare-what-most-needs-repealing-and-replacing.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212632/life-and-science/health-and-education/obamacare-what-most-needs-repealing-and-replacing.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212635/life-and-science/culture-wars/the-president-said-nothing.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212635/life-and-science/culture-wars/the-president-said-nothing.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012312643/life-and-science/culture-wars/sunday-worship-song-how-great-is-our-god-by-chris-tomlin.htmlhttp://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad18173a-map.cgi/ns/v=2.3S/sz=300x250A/http://habitat.igc.org/vancouver/vp-d.htmhttp://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50909http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50909http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=6084http://spectator.org/archives/2009/11/04/killing-capitalism-soros-stylehttp://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11783302http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/http://www.socialistinternational.org/commission.cfmhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/200901173329/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/the-obama-green-team-for-energy-and-the-environment.htmlhttp://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Gro_Harlem_Brundtland.aspxhttp://www.unngosustainability.org/documents/brundtland_bericht.pdfhttp://www.unngosustainability.org/CSD_Definitions%20SD.htmhttp://www.co.ho.md.us/OES/OES_HomePage.htmhttp://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dectmpl.asp?url=/Content/dep/climatechange/sustainabledevel.asphttp://ccgovernment.carr.org/ccg/plan/sustainability-plan.pdfhttp://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/Agencies/planning/community_planning/bikeped/why.htmlhttp://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/Agencies/executive/sustainability/index.htmlhttp://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/Agencies/environment/index.htmlhttp://catonsville.patch.com/articles/kamenetz-seeks-8-million-in-savings-from-reduced-staff-merged-agencieshttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011010412490/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/agenda-21-a-global-economic-disaster-in-the-making/print.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,aHR0cDovL3d3dy5yaWdodHNpZGVuZXdzLmNvbS8yMDExMDEwNDEyNDkwL2xpZmUtYW5kLXNjaWVuY2UvZW5lcmd5LWFuZC1lbnZpcm9ubWVudC9hZ2VuZGEtMjEtYS1nbG9iYWwtZWNvbm9taWMtZGlzYXN0ZXItaW4tdGhlLW1ha2luZy5odG1s/tmpl,component/http://www.rightsidenews.com/feed/13.htmlhttp://twitter.com/rightsidenewshttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Right-Side-News/218834139983http://eepurl.com/EqWNhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/http://www.rightsidenews.com/life-and-science/http://www.rightsidenews.com/editorial/http://www.rightsidenews.com/life-and-science/http://www.rightsidenews.com/world/http://www.rightsidenews.com/us/http://www.rightsidenews.com/http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011010412490/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/agenda-21-a-global-economic-disaster-in-the-making.html#http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011010412490/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/agenda-21-a-global-economic-disaster-in-the-making.html#http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011010412490/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/agenda-21-a-global-economic-disaster-in-the-making.html#http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212631/us/homeland-security/fbi-special-agents-top-10-stories-week-ending-january-21-2011.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212632/life-and-science/health-and-education/obamacare-what-most-needs-repealing-and-replacing.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212633/us/politics-and-economics/obamas-plan-to-admit-mexican-trucks.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212634/us/politics-and-economics/chris-and-michael-berry-precious-metals-correction-will-be-short-lived.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212635/life-and-science/culture-wars/the-president-said-nothing.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212637/us/politics-and-economics/lawsuit-to-stop-government-tuition-benefits-for-illegal-aliens.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212638/world/terrorism/iranium-a-the-iranian-threat.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012212640/us/homeland-security/us-marshals-service-reportjanuary-11-january-20-2011.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012312643/life-and-science/culture-wars/sunday-worship-song-how-great-is-our-god-by-chris-tomlin.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012312644/world/geopolitics/iran-changes-the-balance-of-power-in-lebanon.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/index.php


2/5

Emphases are mine. The last sentence makes clear that land must be controlled by government.

But it doesnt stop there. Sustainable Development has become the buzzword for a strategy under

development since at least the early 1970s to completely control every aspect of our lives,

including resettling entire populations. For example, the 1976 U.N. Conference on Human

Settlements called forpopulation redistribution:

Recommendation A.1National Settlement Policy:

Recommendation A.2Human Settlements and Development:

Recommendation A.4More Equitable Distribution:

They are not kidding. And there is much more.

In 1992, an initiative titled Agenda 21 was proposed at the

U.N. sponsored Conference on Environment and Development,

(the Earth Summit), held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. It states:

The Agenda is an all-encompassing prescription for regulating

every aspect of human activity in the interest of sustainable

development. Is it not troubling that they couldn t even get their

grammar right? 178 governments signed on, including the

United States.

Thank you, George H.W. Bush. However, Agenda 21 was not ratified by the U.S. Senate President

Clinton then defied the Senates will by signing Executive Order 12852, which created the Presidents

Council on Sustainable Development and got the ball rolling. Thank you, Bill Clinton!

While we all would like to assure natural resources are properly preserved for current and future

generations, the U.N.s prescriptions requirethat nations accept theirdefinitions of sustainable

and theirrecommendations for how to accomplish theirgoals. And it is all simply naked communism.

Let me repeat that, "sustainability" is codeword for communism.

Marxism has onlysurvived because of Marxists' ability to package and repackage the same odious

ideas in flowery or obscure language. Consider the following phraseology. Everything in quotes

comes directly from UN sustainability documents:

Social Justice assures the right to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the

environment = equal distribution of wealth = communism.

Social Justice assures that every worker/person will be a direct capital owner = dictatorship of the

proletariat = communism.

Sustainability means that individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective." How about

that? Individual rights dont matter, and as you shouldknow, collective = communism.

Public/private partnerships = Government subsidized competitive advantage, wipes out competing

private business, allows for monopoly government control = communism. (Note: "Public/privatepartnerships" and grants for "sustainability" are features of the Kennedy Serve America Act, the law

that created Obama'scivilian defense force, passed in honor of the deceased senator in 2009.)

Heres another example. The Agendas Rio Declaration demands that:

Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlements, cannot be

treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and

inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation

and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may

become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. Social

justice, urban renewal and development, the provision of decent dwellings-and healthy conditions

for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole.

All countries should establish as a matter of urgency a national policy on human settlements,

embodying the distribution of population, and related economic and social activities, over the

national territory.

A national policy for human settlements and the environment should be an integral part of any

national economic and social development policy.

Human settlements in most countries are characterized by wide disparities in living standards

from one region to another, between urban and rural areas, within individual settlements and

among various social and ethnic groups. Such discrepancies exacerbate many human settlement

problems, and, in some instances, reflect inadequate planning. Human settlement policies canbe powerful tools for the more equitable distribution of income and opportunities.

Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken

globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the

United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in

e v e r y a r e a i n w h i c h h u m a n i m p a c t s o n t h e

environment [sic.]

All States a nd all pe ople shall cooperate in the essential task of eradicating poverty as an

indispensable requirement for sustainable development, in order to decrease the disparities in

standards of living and better meet the needs of the majority of the people of the world.(Emphasis

added.)
http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad18173a-map.cgi/ns/v=2.3S/sz=120x600A/http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=48158&m=3&c=1http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad18173a-map.cgi/ns/v=2.3S/sz=120x600A/http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htmhttp://www.strimoo.com/video/14019717/Obama-Civilian-Security-Youtube.htmlhttp://www.nationalservice.gov/pdf/09_0519_serveact_sidebyside.pdfhttp://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/pdf/12852.pdfhttp://berniedecastro.com/2010/07/24/sustainable-development-otherwise-known-as-agenda-21/http://berniedecastro.com/2010/07/24/sustainable-development-otherwise-known-as-agenda-21/http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_00.shtmlhttp://habitat.igc.org/vancouver/vp-a.htm#A-1


3/5

Under the guise of saving the earth the socialists have explicitly demanded redistribution of income.

What a surprise.

Agenda 21's Millennium Development Project calls for developed countries, thats you and me folks,

to donate 0.7 percent of GDP every year. Lest 0.7 percent of GDP sound like a small number, for this

year it equates to $103 billion, an amount that would fund the Departments of State, Justice and

Energy, as well as the entire Legislative and Judicial branches of the U.S. government. Alternately, it

could fund the Departments of Homeland Security, Interior and Housing and Urban Development!

Take your pick. (Source: Office of Management and Budget).

And that is just the camels nose under the tent. Be sure, it will only increase. But why do it at all? How

have our other efforts worked out for them?

Currently, the United States contributes the largest share of any nation to the U.N. Budget. We provide

the largest contribution to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and every other similarorganization. We provide billions in loans, subsidies and grants to other nations through separate

programs within multiple federal agencies and offer private loans subsidized or guaranteed by the

government. Has that had a noticeable impact? Seems everyone just hates us all the more!

So, not only is this very anti-American body of foreign, unelected bureaucrats attempting to dictate

practically every aspect of our lives, we are footing the bill.

At the Copenhagen Global Warming summit last year, Gordon Brown, British Labor Party leader and

Prime Minister from 2007-2010 said:

The citation comes from a self-consciously pompous website titled Make Wealth History, run by two

college-age brothers, who claim that:

I chose the quote above because it captures the simple-minded, emotion-drenched, conceited attitude

that animates these people. And just as socialism mindlessly reduces life to a tug-of-war between the

haves and have-nots, this shallow, vapid monument to political correctness reveals the utter

ignorance of its practitioners.

Socialists everywhere and always see life as a zero sum game: if someone is wealthy, he must have

taken it from the poor if we are rich today, it must follow that future generations will be weaker. Current

generations greedily sap our resources, leaving less for the future. The sustainable development

crowd has transformed this complaint into public policy, using the alarming specter of "Anthropogenic

Climate Change" to force the issue.

We have exposed the greenhouse gas myth for the fraud it is, but their entire argument is fatally

flawed. The most salient feature of a market economy is its ability to grow and adapt as market

conditions change. When any resource becomes scarce, its price increases. This creates a multitude

of responses: producers seek new sources of supply, engage in research to find alternatives, or

invent methods of using the resource more efficiently. The market accomplishes this smoothly, quietly

and without large disruptions, unless government gets involved to manage it.

A salient theme of college courses in environmental conservation is the "greediness" of American

consumer society. They constantly repeat the mantra that "America consumes 25 percent of the

world's resources but is only 5 percent of the world's population." Barack Obama even reiterated this

statement on the campaign trail.

The clear implication is that this is wasteful and unfair. We should only be consuming 5 percent.

Going from 25 percent to 5 percent is an 80 percent reduction. What happens to the countries

supplying those goods when we reduce our consumption by 80 percent? Do they magically get a

wealth transfer? No. Their economic decline will be cataclysmic.

Another way to look at it is that we consume 25 percent of the world's resources to produce 25 percent

of the world's GNP. Our economy buoys all the economies of the world through its consumption and

production activities. Reducing our GDP to 5 percent would create an economic catastrophe that

would make the Great Depression look like a walk in the park.

During the Great Depression, U.S. GDP declined by 27 percent. World industrial production fell 31

percent as a result. Worldwide calamity ensued, culminating in World War II. What would happen if we

reduced GDP by 80 percent?

As it stands, the sustainability crowd want to see carbon-based energy usage reduced by 80 percent.That goal was incorporated in the Cap and Trade bill that thankfully has not yet been enacted. Not

quite the same as reducing GDP by that amount, but certain to cause a catastrophic decline in living

standards nonetheless. Some analysts have even said that "planned recession" is the only way to

reduce "greenhouse gasses" enough to make a difference.

These people are nuts.

If any true environmentalists understood this plan, they would be fleeing for their lives. It will ruin

economies and cause widespread hardship. And we have plenty of evidence: every country that

For 60 years we have measured our progress by economic gains and social justice. Now we know

that the progress and even the survival of the only world we have depends on decisive action to

protect that world. In the end, without environmental stewardship, there can beno sustainable

prosperity and no sustainable social justice. (Emphasis added.)

The lifestyle of the western world is unsustainable environmentally, economically, and socially.

We are living beyond our means, and sharing the earths resources unequally. To restore some

balance, we need to learn to use less, want less, and be more generous.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6248257/Planned-recession-could-avoid-catastrophic-climate-change.htmlhttp://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3421http://www.invisibleheart.com/Iheart/TradeHappiness.htmlhttp://makewealthhistory.org/about/http://makewealthhistory.org/2009/06/26/gordon-brown-calls-for-new-thinking-on-climate-change/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations#Fundinghttp://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicalshttp://www.unmillenniumproject.org/press/07.htm


4/5

adopts the socialist/communist model so far has become an environmental disaster area.

But that is the intention, because socialism's true object ive is power - to the exclusion of everything

else. And while the sustainability agenda will certainly destroy world economies, in the process of

doing so it will hand absolute power to the people promoting it.

Using the Marxists' deceptive language, the sustainability agenda has insinuated its way into

government right down to the local level and is now firmly entrenched.

The good news is that this is something local tea party activists can focus on and may well be able to

stop before it is too late. But make no mistake, that hour draws near.

Tomorrow: Agenda 21: Globalist Totalitarian Dictatorship Taking Over a Town near You.

RESOURCES and RELATED:

U n d e r s t a n d i n g S u s t a i n a b l e D e v e l o p m e n t , a C r i t i c a l E s s a y

Understanding_Sustainable_Development.pdf Bytes

Sustainable Communities - A Transformation of Virginia by Donna Holt

The History of Sustainable Development - Connecting the Dots by Donna Hold

2007 - 2011 Right Side News : This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented

as an integral whole with complete information provided about its author, date, plac e of

publication, and original URL.

James Simpson is a freelance journalist, businessman and former

White House budget analyst.. His writings have also been published on

Big Government, Big Peace, Emerging Corruption, American Thinker,

Washington Times, WorldNetDaily, FrontPage Magazine and Right Side

News, Soldier of Fortune and others. His blog is Truth & Consequences.

Add comment

Comments at Right Side News are moderated, edited, and deleted at the discretion of the RSN

administrator. Relevant and polite comments are very welcome. Comments that include

inappropriate content, links or language will be edited or removed. Inappropriate content

includes that which is rude, vulgar, belligerent or otherwise irrelevant or that include links to sites

that meet the same description. Spam is also deleted

Name (required)

E-mail (required, but will not display)

Website

Title (required)

55

66

Notify me of follow-up commentsgfedc

Refresh

Send

JComments

Frontpage | US | World | Life And Science | Editorial | Media Kit

Copyright 2011 Right Side Publications, LLC - Site Map - Privacy Policy

Pursuant to Title 17 U.S.C. 107, other copyrighted work is provided for educational purposes, research, critical comment, or debate without profit or payment. If you wish to use copyrighted material

from this site for your own purposes beyond the 'fair use' exception, you must obtain permi ssion from the copyright owner.

ABOUT US MEDIA KIT LINKS RESET USER SETTING TOP
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010121412320/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/the-history-of-sustainable-development-connecting-the-dots.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2011010412490/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/agenda-21-a-global-economic-disaster-in-the-making.html#http://www.joomlatune.com/http://www.rightsidenews.com/about-us.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_facileforms/Itemid,108/http://www.rightsidenews.com/links/http://www.rightsidenews.com/?do=reset_usersettinghttp://www.rightsidenews.com/privacy-policy.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_facileforms/Itemid,108http://www.rightsidenews.com/editorialhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/life-and-sciencehttp://www.rightsidenews.com/worldhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/ushttp://www.rightsidenews.com/http://www.rightsidenews.com/?do=reset_usersettinghttp://www.rightsidenews.com/links/http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_facileforms/Itemid,108/http://www.rightsidenews.com/about-us.htmlhttp://www.joomlatune.com/http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011010412490/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/agenda-21-a-global-economic-disaster-in-the-making.html#http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010121412320/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/the-history-of-sustainable-development-connecting-the-dots.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/2010122412421/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/sustainable-communities-a-transformation-of-virginia.htmlhttp://www.rightsidenews.com/images/stories/January_2011/Life_and_Science/Understanding_Sustainable_Development.pdfhttp://countrystudies.us/russia/25.htm


5/5

f you like this article, consider subscribing to our daily newsletter by clicking here.

egistered Members Don't See this PopUp, Register Free and get the benefits.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/index.php?option=com_user&view=registerhttp://rightsidenews.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1cf0488db68779540d692466f&id=80b67972fb

Documents

agenda 21-A Global Economic Disaster in the Making-1