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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,AGENDA 21 AND PRINCE CHARLES
 By Joan VeonAugust 13, 2004NewsWithViews.comIt has been ten years since I have been writing and studying the now establishedenvironmental philosophy of sustainable development. I was first confronted withit at the United Nations Conference on Population and Development-UNCED inCairo, Egypt in 1994. Sustainable development was a core philosophy behind theProgramme of Action called "Agenda 21" at the 1992 United Nations Conferenceon the Environment and Development-UNCED, now dubbed the "Rio EarthSummit."In Rio, conference Secretary-General Maurice Strong stated,Agenda 21 - still stands as the most comprehensive, most far-reaching and, ifimplemented, the most effective programme of international action eversanctioned by the international community. It is not a final and complete actionprogramme, but one which must continue to evolve.Sustainable development has continued to evolve as that of protecting theworld's resources while its true agenda is to control the world's resources.Communism also has control at its core and it also is evolving. I rememberasking former UN Secretary-General Boutros-Boutros Ghali what he meant by"change" and he told me that he was introducing "constant change" as a way tocontinue the evolutionary processes begun in Rio.Under the evolutionary process which Agenda 21 set in motion, sustainabledevelopment has become like a prism. Every time you turn it, you get a different"color." The sustainable development prism includes the social, political,economic and environmental factors. Until Rio, the phrase sustainabledevelopment had not appeared in any prior UN documents, papers or referencebooks.It should be noted that Agenda 21 sets up the global infrastructure needed tomanage, count, and control all of the world's assets. Included are the forests,fresh water, agricultural lands, deserts, pastures, rangelands, farmers' fields,oceans and inland waterways, marine environment, marine life, cities, housing,sewer and solid wastes, methods of production, air, pollution, biotechnology-every aspect of living-farming, production and manufacturing, research andmedicine, etc., along with you and I. Today everything is sustainable: sustainablewater, sustainable forests, sustainable markets, sustainable agriculture, etc.
 
Through advanced technology such as the Geographic Information System(GIS), the control, count and management of the earth's assets is beingimplemented. Scientists have told me that the GIS satellites can measure thequality of soil anywhere in the earth to a depth of three inches. Furthermore, itcan tell you what kind of birds and insects are in which kind of tree. It can alsosee you and me sleeping in our beds and living in our houses-ever wonder whyleaded paint was such a problem? The UN calls this transparency while you andI call it invasion of privacy.So how did the UN come up with this heinous agenda? It began in 1972 whenthe first Earth Summit was held in Stockholm, Sweden. Maurice Strong was theconference Secretary-General of that meeting also. As a result of itsdeliberations, in 1974 the UN General Assembly set up the UN EnvironmentProgram-UNEP, now a major player in sustainable development, interacting withcorporations and a key partner in the United Nations Global Compact.It should be noted that hundreds, if not thousands of environmental NGO'ssupport and are helping to implement Agenda 21 worldwide. The United Nationshas given them vast responsibilities to assist in the implementation of sustainabledevelopment. Furthermore, governments are recognizing their manpower as afree source of power to carry the message throughout the world. Two verypowerful NGO's that were part of the birthing of sustainable development are theInternational Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). In the fall of 1983, the 38th Session of theUnited Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 38/161, which called uponthe secretary-general to appoint a commission "to propose long-termenvironmental strategies for achieving sustainable development to the year 2000and beyond."The individuals chosen for that commission included Gro Harlem Brundtland,former prime minister of Norway and vice-president of the Socialist Internationalwho just retired as Director-General of the World Health Organization. It wasWilliam Ruckleshaus from the U.S. who also served on this life-changingcommission. The rest of the delegates were from other socialist, Marxist, orcommunist countries. While I could provide you with their definition of sustainabledevelopment which my research shows is based on the 1977 USSR constitution,let me paraphrase:The world has too many people, and if we do not reduce the number of peopleon planet Earth, they will use up all of the Earth's resources so that futuregenerations will be left without any resources. The United Nations is the bestglobal body to monitor, manage and preserve the resources of the planet.As a community activist ten years ago, I could not understand why our kids werebeing pushed to use condoms, why the schools were educating in matters thatdid not involve them, why family planning classes were discussing sensitivematters in front of boys and girls or why homosexuality was becoming accepted(homosexuals don't procreate-now they only adopt). Furthermore, the schoolswere assisting abortion clinics by aiding pregnant girls during school hours by
 
providing school time for them to use their facilities, without parental consent.These are all methods to reduce the population. Euthanasia, the right to die withdignity, is for the elderly. Then there are wars, illnesses, and viruses. It should benoted that these same environmentalists feel that the population of the world hasto be reduced by at least 66% in order for the earth to be sustainable. However,the brilliant research of Dr. Jacqueline Kasun from Hamboldt University hasproven statistically that if you were to take all of the people in the world and putthem into the State of Texas, they would have 1200 square feet of space each.Even before the people of the world understood the threat to world population,the Group of Seven, now the Group of Eight world leaders stated in their 1981communique that they were "deeply concerned about the implication of worldpopulation growth." In 1990, they commended the forthcoming 1992 Rio EarthSummit and in 1992, they wrote, "The Earth Summit has been a landmark inheightening the consciousness of the global environmental challenges and increating a world-wide partnership on development and the environment."It was at the 1992 UNCED conference that sustainable development wasunveiled. Interestingly to note, there was a very strong and powerful corporatelobby that had come together to support this evil agenda of control. Called theWorld Business Council for Sustainable Development-WBCSD, they still exertgreat power and influence on the international level. The WBCSD has nurturedand expanded sustainable development-all the way to the ten year follow-up ofUNCED in 2004 at the World Summit for Sustainable Development inJohannesburg.In Johannesburg, sustainable development evolved to a much higher level.There many of the same people who were involved ten years previous werepresent, along with some new players which included Congressman DennisKuchinich and others, along with former governor of California Jerry Brown. TheBush Administration put forth a World Summit Vision Statement that said in partWe believe sustainable development begins at home and is supported byeffective domestic policies and international partnerships. We recognize povertyremains a global problem of huge proportions that demands our action.To fulfill its commitment, our government is spending $970 million over threeyears which will be used to leverage private monies to generate more than $1.6Bfor water-related and other activities globally. Projects included: Clean Energy,an Initiative to Cut Hunger, sustainable forest management and monies to helpfight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.The centerpiece of Johannesburg was the launching of "International SustainableDevelopment Law" that will govern the implementation and legal rights ofsustainable development. This new discipline is based on poverty alleviation andthe rights of the marginalized (socialistic transfer of wealth mechanisms). Over150 environmental lawyers and those from other related disciplines met inDurban, South Africa a week before to discuss the integration of environmental,economic, and social laws into one new discipline. There were policy papers put
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