Nevertheless, it is being vigorously implemented by the administrative agencies of the federal government, and by other nations around the world. America's participation is not the result of an international treaty, ratified by Congress. America's participation is the result of George Bush signing Agenda 21 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, and the current administration's desire to implement its objectives.
Participating nations voluntarily submit an annual report to the CSD. In April, , another massive gathering in Rio, evaluated the progress toward the implementation of Agenda 21, five years after it was adopted. Staggering progress has been made world wide, and particularly in the United States.
The following chart indicates progress made toward 32 specific Agenda 21 objectives. The solid lines indicate the percentage of participating nations that have programs in place to achieve each of the objectives, or activities, listed on the left. The striped lines indicate the percentage of participating nations that are currently developing such programs. Look carefully at the program activities, and the percentage of nations that already have active programs in place for each activity; Global implementation of Agenda 21 is much very close to reality.
In the United States, programs are already in place to achieve each of the objectives. The United Nations rates as "very good" the progress of the United States in each of these categories. The UN's analysis of each nation's report is available on the UN web site. A closer examination of what the UN has to say about the United State's implementation of Agenda 21 is most revealing. One of the 32 specific objectives of Agenda 21 is to create a "National Coordinating Body" in each nation.
The United Nations report says:. Although our work is far from done—the United States, along with partners from around the world, has made significant progress in the fight against Ebola in West Africa.
We need to stay vigilant in our efforts to counter biological threats and to prevent future outbreaks from becoming epidemics. That is why we have made a commitment to assist at least 30 countries to achieve the targets of the Global Health Security Agenda to build national, regional, and international capability to prevent, detect and respond to infectious disease threats, whether naturally occurring, accidental or intentional.
The G-7 Leaders have taken a decision to match this commitment by collectively offering to assist at least 60 countries. The number of hungry people in the world — million — has dropped by million over the past decade, thanks in no small part to these and other coordinated international efforts.
Recognizing that investing in agricultural development and improved nutrition can have transformative impact in reducing hunger and extreme poverty, President Obama announced the Feed the Future initiative in , building on previous U. Through Feed the Future, the Administration is working closely with our country partners to support inclusive economic growth through development of the agriculture sector. Building on the momentum created by Feed the Future, the United States is also promoting inclusive, collective global action to increase food security.
With other G-7 countries and African leaders, President Obama launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in to promote sustainability through increased and more responsible private-sector investment in African agriculture. Through Power Africa , the United States is working together with a range of partners to accelerate private-sector energy transactions, by leveraging the assistance, financing, commercial and diplomatic tools of the U.
Government, as well as by leveraging the tools and expertise of our bilateral and multilateral partners, including the African Development Bank, the World Bank Group, the Swedish Government, the European Union, and more than private-sector partners. Ending extreme poverty: The development policy of and major development initiatives led by the United States are built on the premise that fighting extreme poverty and fostering sustained and inclusive growth, equal access to opportunity and open and fair governance serve one and the same mission.
This is totalitarianism, and it never ends well. Agenda 21 is akin to a monster attacking every aspect of our lives. Picture a giant octopus in the middle of a city block. Each tentacle invades a different house. Whether the issue is healthcare, education, forests, food, family farms, water rights, the debt ceiling, war, immigration, smart meters, abortion, ad infinitum, Agenda 21 is literally squeezing us to death.
Because we lost the media long ago, most of the populace is unaware. Without the Internet, the rest of us would be clueless. Articulate, soft-hearted, left-leaning leaders are sought out by the global elite and showered with grant money to implement their scheme — our taxes at work. These community activists seem sincere because they ARE sincere; they would be horrified to learn that the endgame is control and depopulation, not the environment.
Many of those opponents saw Agenda 21 as inimical to business and industry — it did, after all, focus on carbon emissions and related issues — and also believed that it represented an attack on property rights because it proposed to not allow owners completely unfettered use of their lands and businesses.
After all, the far right had been sounding the alarm about all international agreements and controls going back to the League of Nations in the early 20th century and even before. Indeed, one Patriot website, Sovereignty. The Activists Tom DeWeese, who heads an organization called the American Policy Center, was probably the first to focus on Agenda 21, launching attacks on it almost before the ink on the document was dry.
He believes that Agenda 21 is ultimately responsible for what he sees as destructive forces in American society, including multiculturalism, same-sex marriage and other cultural changes. For many years, DeWeese soldiered on almost alone, but as time passed he began to gain adherents, or at least his ideas did. Eisenhower of being a communist agent and claiming that fluoridation of water was a nefarious attempt to poison Americans — also got into the act early, sending a correspondent to cover the original Earth Summit in In those sessions, many of which involve local and regional politicians, the JBS has shrilly warned about the perils of environmentalism.
DeWeese and others are part of a network of radicals peddling essentially similar ideas about Agenda 21 see profiles, p. Michael Coffman, for example, is the executive director of Environmental Perspectives Inc. Michael Chapman of Ed Watch, a group against public education, sounded similar at the conference. To Chapman, the plan is to restrict economic development, not so as to protect the environment but just to give more power to the government.
Only their fetish has priority. A one-world order. Remarkably, there is also some opposition to Agenda 21 from the left, notably in the form of Democrats Against UN Agenda The group, which hosted a major conference on the plan in , is led by self-described lesbian feminist Rosa Koire, who came to the issue through battles over zoning in Santa Rosa, Calif. Koire, who wrote the popular book Behind the Green Mask: U. Agenda 21, claims the plan will ultimately bring on the economic collapse of the U.
Perhaps the most effective purveyor of the Agenda 21 conspiracy theory has been Glenn Beck, especially before he left Fox News in mid In , Beck went further, publishing a dystopic novel with co-author Harriet Parke called Agenda It purports to tell a post-Agenda 21 tale of America, a place where the beleaguered heroine is confined to a depressing apartment in a planned community, spending her days treading on a special pad to produce energy.
In this world, children are taken from parents and raised in group homes, mating partners are assigned, and people recite pledges in honor of squirrels. Agenda 21 as erosive of American sovereignty. On the Ground In this era of extreme political polarization, politicians with relatively large followings have jumped on the Agenda 21 bandwagon, simultaneously demonizing environmentalism, the United Nations and any kind of global planning.
Introducing anti-Agenda 21 legislation that ultimately failed, Oklahoma state Sen. Sally Kern R , already infamous for her wild-eyed anti-gay commentaries, said that the plan would destroy American property rights and result in a ban on cars powered by fossil fuel. Arizona state Sen. Around the same time, after a debate about raising sales taxes to pay for transportation improvements, state Sen. In Missouri, legislators cut funding for the Department of Motor Vehicles after it came to light that it had turned over a list of , residents with conceal-carry permits to federal investigators.
The move followed testimony to lawmakers from Melissa Wilson, wife of state Rep. With Agenda 21, I will be someone who will be put on a watch list. In Albemarle County, Va. And in Naperville, Ill. Opponents of the smart meters claimed without evidence that they were linked to illness and cyberwarfare, and endanger property rights and liberty in general. There are almost too many of these kinds of encounters to count.
But the most dramatic action — outdoing states like Kansas, New Hampshire and Tennessee, which all passed resolutions condemning Agenda 21 — came in Alabama. There, on May 16, , after just a few minutes of debate, legislators voted unanimously for Republican state Sen.
What does seem clear is that the world is growing more complex and facing more challenges that really do require serious advance planning. Despite the barrage of anti-science propaganda, there is virtually no doubt among climate scientists and others that we face huge challenges related to climate change, rising oceans, and resulting disastrous weather events — challenges that it seems certain can only be effectively met by multinational action.
In addition, there are major challenges related to population growth and shifts in concentrations of people. There has been something of a backlash to the anti-Agenda 21 movement.
In , for instance, an anti-sustainable development bill was killed in Arizona after the state Chamber of Commerce lobbied against it, saying it could drive away firms with sustainable development plans, according to the Huffington Post. Joseph McCarthy, according to the Post. That may well be. But an enormous number of politicians, commentators, activists, conspiracy theorists and others have swallowed the story of the anti-Agenda 21 zealots, making any kind of rational discussion of the environment and related issues extremely difficult.
And that is the basic problem. Dealing with the serious problems that confront our nation and our planet becomes incredibly difficult when the public discussion is poisoned with groundless conspiracy theories.
Nevertheless, in the hands of a dedicated cadre of far-right conspiracy theorists, it has been depicted as a key step in a secret plan to destroy property rights, redistribute wealth and, ultimately, force the United States and other countries in a tyrannical, one-world government in which bicycle paths and wildlife refuges will be vastly more important than human beings.
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