Topic: The UN "Agenda 21" and American "Sustainable Development" policy (Video)

[IronDioPriest]

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This video is very enlightening. I won't take what I've just watched at face value until I learn more. But it is compelling enough to warrant further investigation. I'd not heard of the UN "Agenda 21", thus I had not heard if any kind of international policy connection to the plague of "Smart Growth/Sustainable Development" policy in America. If this video is relating facts, the web of world-wide Socialist control in the guise of environmentalism has been on the march for decades, and it is far-reaching, entrenched, and here - now - in the form of "Smart Growth/Sustainable Development" policy.

Some will call it conspiratorial. Watch the video and see what you think.

Agenda 21 For Dummies

Here also is a BING page with several videos relating to "Agenda 21"

[charlesoakwood]

We still own the land and the things necessary to sustain it.

[Pandora]

Carroll County, Maryland elected five new County Commissioners in November. These brave souls voted unanimously to get rid of all traces of the "Sustainability" agenda in the county. They abolished their "Sustainability" office and dropped out of ICLEI (the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives), the first county to do so.

This may not sound like much but is in fact, huge. The ICLEI has been busy training local governments in implementing the UN's Agenda 21. If you recall, this was the key product of the 1992 Rio de Janeiro "Earth Summit," where Maurice Strong, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, set the tone with the following memorable quotes:

    "It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class, involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and workplace air conditioning, and suburban housing, are not sustainable.


    "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring about?

Link

I know I posted on Agenda 21 several times at the old place, because I've been trying to bring people's attention to this UN-pushed endeavor for some time.  I haven't watched the video, but if it's alarming to you, IDP, there's a reason why it is and you can take my word for that.

It is through the above linked American Thinker piece that I found a link of localities that are involved in the ICLEI and my podunk neck-of-the-woods was a dues-paying member.

Anytime you hear "stakeholder", "sustainability" or "smart-growth", Agenda 21 is afoot, whether the utterer is aware or not.

[John Florida]

Guard the children!Be involved in their schooling. Don't trust the system!!

[IronDioPriest]

....I found a link of localities that are involved in the ICLEI and my podunk neck-of-the-woods was a dues-paying member...

Thankfully I do not see my town or county on the list. Many in MN are though, including of course, Hennepin & Ramsey Counties, home of Minneapolis & St. Paul.

[Pandora]

Within the official Agenda 21 documentation is a section on how to get your local government involved; there are "change agents" - sort of like community activists - made available to instruct and advise individuals and groups on how to get it done.

[charlesoakwood]

I thought this was something the Commies were trying to slip in, never knew that there were Americans gullible enough to fall for this garbage.

[Pandora]

Gullible?  In some cases, maybe.  Most often, it's the statists for whom this is a blueprint for implementing their goal of total control of everything, everywhere.

[Pandora]

Where did you get that video from, IDP?  Was there an article attached?

[ToddF]

Just a little throw away little thing in my weekly paper.  Hennepin County actually employs someone to make up little activity packets (like a child in kindergarden would get) and go around to churches, to engage ADULTS about sustainability.

No, with so many otherwise unemployable employed by the leftist trash that runs Hennepin County, I would have no idea why taxes are going up 10% per year...

[IronDioPriest]

Where did you get that video from, IDP?  Was there an article attached?

I drilled through one of the links at the AT article you cited to another site, and the link to that list was there.

ETA: Click on "Part III" @ the AmThinker article, and then click on "approximately 600 local governments" in the next article. *Popup alert.

[Libertas]

Yeah, smart growth begat sustainability in MN and more bastard children of the same concept is not making their bullsplattery any more palatable, necessary or wanted!

[ToddF]

This is what happens when churches forget the very reason they exist

http://www.afs.nonprofitoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BA1F8EF7D-8723-4404-8DD0-D20487D5C688%7D

And yes, this includes

New Tool Kit for Congregations - Launch Event March 10- Hennepin County is looking for local faith-based communities to use a recently developed toolkit to educate and engage their members in environmental actions — specifically, in reducing waste, recycling, reducing toxicity, conserving energy and protecting water resources. Hennepin County will provide program support, training, technical assistance and educational supplies for your congregation to implement environmental education projects and encourage environmentally sustainable behavior.

God help us all.

[Libertas]

Morons!  But that kind of leftist buffoonery is SOP at apostate churches across the land!

 

 

[ToddF]

A lot can be said for independent churches.  The bigger the bureaucracy, the greater the chance of someone thinking that's a great idea for church.

[charlesoakwood]

A lot can be said for independent churches.  The bigger the bureaucracy, the greater the chance of someone thinking that's a great idea for church.

 

[John Florida]

I thought this was something the Commies were trying to slip in, never knew that there were Americans gullible enough to fall for this garbage.

Every major city in Tx

 I would bet most don't know a damned thing about having it.

[Pandora]

Where did you get that video from, IDP?  Was there an article attached?

I drilled through one of the links at the AT article you cited to another site, and the link to that list was there.

ETA: Click on "Part III" @ the AmThinker article, and then click on "approximately 600 local governments" in the next article. *Popup alert.

Been there, done that - in February - but I didn't see the video then.

How could you have found the video in the AT article when I didn't post the article til after you posted the vid?

[Libertas]

I thought this was something the Commies were trying to slip in, never knew that there were Americans gullible enough to fall for this garbage.

Every major city in Tx

 I would bet most don't know a damned thing about having it.

The big cities are, if anything, ground zero for breeding such lunacy.  They are the dark seamy petri dishes of society!  Don't touch it!

 

 

[IronDioPriest]

Where did you get that video from, IDP?  Was there an article attached?

I drilled through one of the links at the AT article you cited to another site, and the link to that list was there.

ETA: Click on "Part III" @ the AmThinker article, and then click on "approximately 600 local governments" in the next article. *Popup alert.

Been there, done that - in February - but I didn't see the video then.

How could you have found the video in the AT article when I didn't post the article til after you posted the vid?

I'm sorry, in my haste I misread your initial question. I thought you were asking me to retrace how I found the list of municipalities. Why I thought that, I cannot say.

Anyhoo, the video: I received a link to the "Bing" video page (linked at the end of the first post) from one of my "Twitter" followers.