Understanding Sustainable Dev'mt
Vancouver Declaration On Human Settlements
Chongqing Declaration on Human Settlements in Mountain Areas
Preservation of the environment is the tool that is being used to incrementally eliminate private property rights for the masses. Property and natural resources are the only currency with real value. They create wealth. Without them, people are at the mercy of those who do own and control them (i.e. feudalism). The increase in world poverty is directly linked to the increasing corporate control of natural resources.
The 'Earth Summit' was the kickoff for what can only be described as the Era of Radical Environmentalism':
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In 1987 the United Nations Commission on Environment and Development issued a call for creation of a new charter that would set forth fundamental principles for sustainable development. The drafting of an Earth Charter was part of the unfinished business of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.
In 1994 Maurice Strong, the secretary general of the Earth Summit and chairman of the Earth Council, and Mikhail Gorbachev, president of Green Cross International, launched a new Earth Charter Initiative with support from the Dutch government. An Earth Charter Commission was formed in 1997 to oversee the project and an Earth Charter Secretariat was established at the Earth Council in Costa Rica.
UN Agenda 21 is the all encompassing plan to 'save the planet'. In a nutshell, the goal is to herd people into 'human settlements' designed by the central planners supposedly with efficient utilization of resources in mind. This allows the fascist corporate and wealthy elite to own and control the natural resources and it makes the people residing in the 'human settlements dependent upon them for their survival.
"The full implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Commitments to the Rio principles, were strongly reaffirmed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 26 August to 4 September 2002."
The basis for Agenda 21 was the radical Earth Charter the principles of which were incorporated into the Rio Climate Treaty. Notice that in the paragraph 'ratified or acceded to'. 'Acceded to' is the way that many of these unconstitutional agreements are being adopted in the United States. The corporations buy the votes of our members of Congress to either keep their mouths shut or to support the agenda on the basis of saving the environment.
Signed at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992 by over 150 nations including the United States of America, the Rio Climate Treaty came into force in March 1994 and has been ratified or acceded to by virtually every nation including all populous countries except Turkey. The Rio Climate Treaty was the centerpiece of the Rio Earth Summit and was signed by over a hundred heads of state and government including US President George Herbert Walker Bush.