That is the name of today’s must read column by Joan M. Veon. Here is the introduction:
Maurice Strong, the secretary-general of the 1992 "Rio Earth Summit," remarked at the close of the meeting: "We have established a new global partnership. You must translate Agenda 21 and the decision that you have taken at the global level into your own national policy and practices. We should consider new taxes, user charges, emission permits, citizen funding all based on the polluter-pays principle. The messages from the children delivered as we opened this assembly this morning, gathered during the 15,000 mile journey of Gaia."
While no reasonable person took serious the idea of citizens paying for using or over-consuming the earth's resources, sustainable development is all about capitalism, according to a meeting recently held at the Royal Institute for International Affairs, or RIIA, in London. To determine what kind of capitalism, we must consider that the Programme of Action called Agenda 21, which supported the 1992 U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development, was all about a total re-make and re-design of the world. It was all about who will control the earth's resources. Pretty amazing that a global organization would lay stake to the waters, oceans, lakes, forests, birds, animals, earth's land surface, the air we breathe and the sky and space, as well as you and me!
Little by little, the world is being re-organized using capitalism as the global engine to change the structure of government from government to public-private partnership, which is a co-management of government by business. At the heart of this philosophy is Gaia, which is paganism, and the elimination of the authority and dominion which God the Creator set in place in Genesis 1 and 2.
Let's consider capitalism, which is an "ism" like communism, socialism, fascism or Marxism. Capitalism is the ability to take a particular commodity and sell it at a profit. But what if the commodity you are selling is literally "thin air"? The theory of climate change says the earth is warming and we have too much carbon being emitted from the use of oil. The polluter-pays principal says that corporations should be taxed for consuming too much of the world's natural oil resources. Who determines how much you should be using and what you should pay? A group of chosen and corporately financed non-governmental organizations: World Wildlife Federation, Greenpeace, IUCN, Sierra Club, Conservation International, Nature Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, and The World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Fifteen years after the Rio Earth Summit, the message at the "Sense and Sustainability Conference" is that "You can make a lot of money from the environment." Posing as Gaia's environmental guardians, these savvy opportunists have changed their mantra and are now singing the praises of capitalism with a transfer-of-wealth melody.
Of course, they cover their objectives by using Al Gore horror flicks and a continual stream of the latest studies that says we must do something NOW. Behind their message of despair is one of a transfer of wealth and power to them. This tune began shortly after the United Nations was founded in 1945. Since then, nothing has been the same. The world appears to have more problems than before, and it is the United Nations that is touting the environmental agenda. Their solutions to the multitude of new problems that they have found is to push the envelope one step further, and to slowly grab more and more power while transferring wealth at the same time. If they are not Fabian Socialists, they must be using Fabian Socialistic tactics.
