From CFACT
Marked-up draft of UN Rio+20 agenda reveals shocking “sustainability” wish list.
An American family of four could owe the UN $1,325 per year.
The United Nations plans to make its Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference “the most significant environmental conference in history.” A draft planning and agenda document, “The Future We Want,” marked-up by myriad ultra-liberal NGOs, provides an unvarnished look at what lurks behind Rio+20.
“Americans, their free world partners and people in developing nations who hope to lift themselves out of poverty should be on their guard. Otherwise Rio+20 could easily trap them in a future we dread,” said Craig Rucker, CEO of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, a Washington, DC-based organization that advances the needs of people, while also protecting wildlife and environmental values.
The UN’s international NGO allies want to expand previous calls for a “green economy,” by including new demands for “resource justice” and new mechanisms to ensure “contraction and convergence for over- and under-consumers of natural resources.” People do not need advanced degrees to figure out whose economies and lifestyles the activists intend to “contract,” Rucker commented.
Another agenda item would have the world end “speculation” in energy, raw material and economic markets. However, history has taught that it is extremely difficult even to define “speculation,” and that attempts to control investment, development and resource allocation frequently end in disaster.
The international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) also advocate making national environmental policies subject to “international legal frameworks and regulations,” and “strengthening international environmental governance … within the institutional framework of sustainable development.” That would make national sovereignty “the most endangered species in Rio,” CFACT president David Rothbard stated.
The NGOs would place both nature and man in jeopardy, since they call for curbs on “any technologies that might imply a serious risk for the environment or human society, including in particular synthetic biology, geo-engineering, genetic modification, nuclear energy and nanotechnology,” Rothbard observed.
They would curtail the very technologies that allow us to provide for people’s needs in the most efficient, least intrusive manner. Few policies are more counterproductive than forcing people to grow low yield crops that are susceptible to insects and drought, or to rely on inefficient energy technologies, he said.
The document also seeks to impose staggering financial burdens on people in developed nations. It would give the UN 0.7% of a nation’s gross domestic product – some $1,325 per year for an American family of four. A Canadian family would pay $1,211, while their counterparts would be taxed $1,206 in Germany and $1,171 in Japan. Norwegian families would take dubious first place honors, paying a whopping $2,445 every year. Other countries’ obligations, based on World Bank 2010 data, can be found on CFACT.tv.
The NGOs most popular agenda item appears to be increased funding and powers for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which they want to turn into an international version of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “People concerned about the impacts that EPA has had on American energy prices and jobs – for minimal health or environmental benefits – should be especially wary of giving vast new powers and funding to the UNEP, which is completely unelected and unaccountable,” Rucker commented.
On climate and energy, activists claiming to be acting for “indigenous peoples” said the UN should insist that developed countries shift rapidly to low-carbon energy use. Not to be outdone, environmental NGOs are demanding that developed countries cut carbon dioxide emissions by 95% by 2050. That would take the United States back to what it emitted around the time of the Civil War, while accomplishing nothing for the climate.
To pay for this expansive eco-wish list, the United Nations and NGOs also want to give the UN authority to tax every currency conversion and financial transaction, fuel sales and air travel tickets – and seize all funds that currently provide subsidies and tax deductions for fossil fuel and nuclear power. These funds would be in addition to the extensive foreign aid already provided by taxpayers and treasuries of developed nations.
CFACT invites people to examine this remarkable document at CFACT.tv – and determine for themselves how much it actually represents “the future we want.”
The Committee is taking a delegation to Brazil to expose these potentially devastating policy proposals. “We also intend to inject some much needed common sense into the deliberations, and ensure that at least some consideration is given to the needs of real people, especially the world’s poor – and not just to the unreasonable and often outrageous demands of Deep Ecology, anti-development activists,” Rucker said.
Turn back technological development to 200 years ago. (p 4)
Strictly apply the precautionary approach to any technnology which might harm the environment. (p 18)
End all large agricultural use of land. End use of agricultural technologies. Give land to small hunter gatherers, pastoralists, peasants. (p 126)
Just a few of the modest proposals to end world poverty.
In Zoroastrianism the Evil One, Ahriman, always hated all farming, homes, fires, marriage to one wife, and he especially hated cattle. This was known 4000 years ago as “The Assault,” named for the hostility to all things necessary for human life. Today the same hatred goes by the sophisticated and elegant term, “food security.”
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Tom Murphy says:
June 12, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Political correctness and its insensate need to re-purpose words has created a generation (or three now) of conveniently non-critical thinking, zealots (a/k/a non-governmental organizations) lead by Jim Jones-like religious figures, shamelessly masquerading as “friends” of the Earth and (on occasion) “climate scientists.”
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There was an excellent (rare) documentary on the DOC channel last night called “The War on Kids”. Eye opening. I recognized some of the “techniques” from my own schooling in the 60s-70s, but it’s far worse now.
I think this is it:
http://thewaronkidspresskit.blogspot.com/
To those who maintain that there is nothing to worry about from RIO because no treaty will ever pass in the senate, you are unfortunately quite mistaken. Lisa Jackson, in charge of EPA, is busy having her staff write and enforce regulations that aim to accomplish much of what the Rio+20 want. I am simply appalled at how much power we let the EPA have. The EPA writes and enforces it’s own laws without any oversight at all by our congress. This is totally unconstitutional in my opinion. EPA should only be able to enforce regulations that have been put to a vote in congress and signed by the president. At this very moment, every coal fired power plant is slated to be shut down due to EPA regulations in our near future. Gas powered power plants wont be far behind as the next set of LISA regulations will shutdown gas plants as producing to much CO2 as well.
nigelf says:
June 12, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Any free country’s leader or representative who signs on to this should immediately be incarcerated and tried for treason upon landing back in their home country. And I’m 100% serious too.
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I think in the USA all it takes is the convening of a Grand Jury for ANY PURPOSE. It is certainly worth investigating whether or not it is true.
@davidmhoffer June 12, at 11:56 pm
As much as I think the UN provides little of value and does much harm, there is one purpose fo them to still exist. It draws all the looney tunes into one place where it is easy to whatch the whole bunch of them at once
Maybe we can get them to meet in a “B Ark” Since they purport to be a panicky lot who think the world is about to end, it might be easy to arrange.
“B Ark” was meant to be linked here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Golgafrincham
NikFromNYC says:
June 12, 2012 at 7:28 pm
…… Giving women the vote has permanently skewed politics to the idealistic left due to the foolhardy urge to ban abortion by the entire right wing machine, so there’s a whopping 50% of voters whose adult freedom to screw up is threatened enough to cause all of us progressive political disasters as backlashes against such Puritanism……
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A female who has any sense considers the abortion issue deader than a door nail and pays attention to other things. The only reason abortion is ever brought up as a campaign issue is because the left (and right) hopes to sway female voters through emotion.
Over here in Britain, we have been part of a Social homogenisation of peoples and regions, the powers that reside in Brussels wish to rid Europe of the nation state.
Indeed, the whole idea of the nation state is to be expunged, there have been plans extant – that show the cantonisation of the British mainland are already drawn up – all we will be is a maritime province on the fringes of the People’s Socialist Soviet of Europe.
When I read the above blog post, “From Rio + 20: The future we dread” , I thought to myself, we are, here in Britain 80% there already.
The future is Orwellian, that great man had the foresight, he was a little out on the timing.
I thought the UN was some sort of a international talking shop designed to prevent world wars and local conflicts, on the latter I’d say – big fail, on the former – well maybe but the USA’s nuclear arsenal possibly had something to do with as well.
That said, how is it, that an unelected, undemocratic and very unrepresentative cabal of tinpot dictators, mass murderers and mafia bosses…….er east of the Volga…….can start dictating terms on how we live our lives and pay taxes in the Western world?
Ask yourself this question and in honesty – if somehow, tomorrow the UN ceased to be, would anyone actually miss it, or even care?
Another question, this one addressed to our American cousins – are you not weary of paying for this monster [the UN] and is this the future for you?
Don’t vote Obama.
Hey, Rio should go for it go deep, and we should encourage them so that everybody will be able to understand what it is all really about, trying to create the international socialist world government without firing a shot.
The .7% of GlobalGDP has been the target for 40 years. If one is interested, Mr. Wolfensohn, former World Bank head, has been peddling that for a decade atleast; you may visit him on YouTube, as an example.
These United States are truely the only roadblock to the dystopia they seek; notwithstanding the individuals and groups worldwide (UKIP, recently Australia, scientists). As a sovereign, it is merely us. We have enough problems within, we do not need global tyrants’ interference as well.
Gail Combs says:
June 13, 2012 at 4:01 pm
NikFromNYC says:
June 12, 2012 at 7:28 pm
…… Giving women the vote has permanently skewed politics to the idealistic left due to the foolhardy urge to ban abortion by the entire right wing machine, so there’s a whopping 50% of voters whose adult freedom to screw up is threatened enough to cause all of us progressive political disasters as backlashes against such Puritanism……
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A female who has any sense considers the abortion issue deader than a door nail and pays attention to other things. The only reason abortion is ever brought up as a campaign issue is because the left (and right) hopes to sway female voters through emotion.
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Thanks, Gail, for telling me that I am a female with no sense. I had no idea until you just put me right on that question.
This may come as a shock to you, but you do not speak for anyone but yourself.
It is not just at Rio, this message is being put forth at conferences everywhere, this post
“At this biodiversity conference the Green Energy Act lay like a dog turd in need of a policy pooper-scooper.
The 2012 Muskoka Summit on the Environment entitled Perspectives On Biodiversity Loss – From Science to Policy, follows on the inaugural 2010 Freshwater Summit which had its inception in the year of the world Summit in Muskoka.
The objective then was to prepare a policy statement which would be communicated to our government representatives at the international Summit. An lsarc.ca member with long-standing involvement in freshwater monitoring and protection was invited to the first event and this year again attended to bring a Lake Superior perspective to the proceedings giving us the opportunity to share with you a first-hand report:”
Continue reading at http://lsarc.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/the-green-energy-act-lay-like-a-dog-turd-in-need-of-a-policy-pooper-scooper/
One of the speakers and the most egregious of the bunch when it came to alarmism and misrepresenting the science was Prof. Jeremy Kerr. This video accurately captures his disingenuous presentation http://youtu.be/UlCZbZgoqPs
Jeremy Kerr, Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Ottawa misrepresents, or display stunning ignorance of, the actual state of climate science. He would also have us believe correlation is causation.
Jeremy Kerr states in the bio submitted for his talk at the 2012 Muskoka Summit on the Environment that: “… To this end he has worked to improve endangered species legislation in Ontario and, through the International Boreal Science Panel, to gain commitments from governments across Canada to establish vast new protected areas in the boreal wilderness.
His work remains focused on big questions in ecology and conservation, particularly on how species respond to recent, rapid climate change and sharply rising incidence of climate-related extreme events.”
When asked by a member of the audience what his position was on the Ontario McGuinty Liberal government’s omnibus Budget Bill 55 which will severely weaken over one dozen environmental protection laws Kerr responded that he had been too busy to be concerned with it…
Kerr was awarded $100,000 by the McGuinty Government’s Early Researcher Award Program. Provincial research funds have allowed Kerr to establish the Canadian Facility for Ecoinformatics Research at the University of Ottawa’s Department of Biology.
Video clips of the other presenters can be found here http://lsarc.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/the-green-energy-act-lay-like-a-dog-turd-in-need-of-a-policy-pooper-scooper/
The more fool you (are). As Monckton points out, it’s a death by inches. Each conference produces voluminous resolutions and treaties which increase slightly the powers and funding of the globalist agencies, and they add up and accelerate. It’s a ratchet; one-way motion, one click at a time. Then you find out your local prerogatives, rights, and sovereignty have been reduced to mere shadows, having no force or substance.
And none of the agencies now holding power are accountable to anyone, and do not even publicize their proceedings and decisions, until they’re at the point of implementation. The EU functions in exactly this way.
In the long run, it’s a klanking unworkable Soviet sort of governance, but it takes internal collapse to demonstrate it. That may be happening right now with the EU. If so, good riddance! (Unless “the world” decides to pass its powers upstairs to a global version …) And don’t kid yourself; that’s exactly what is the goal and ideal being pushed.
According to Monckton, the EU Commission has twigged that the Agenda 21 lot are planning to supplant and replace them — rendering the EU just a sub-department of the global governance bureaucracy. They are not pleased, and have declined to send a delegation. Hilary and Obama plan to be part of, or even control, its top echelons, though, so they have no problem subordinating the US to it.
June 15: Rio+20: ‘cautious optimism’ as last round of outcome document talks nears end
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42246&Cr=rio+20&Cr1=