When was agenda 21 signed

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The activities in primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors are. 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.

What follows are brief portraits of 11 of the leading anti-Agenda 21 groups and their leaders. So meaningful.

The Constitution Party was founded in as the U. Taxpayers Party by the late Howard Phillips, who ran for president three times without ever gaining more than 0. The party, which at one point absorbed the American Independent Party the vehicle for segregationist Alabama Gov. The plan has been repeatedly denounced at the local level by the Constitution Party as well. That antagonism to centralized power made the tough-talking Mack, who was once the public relations director for the extremist group Gun Owners of America, a natural adherent to ideas about the supposedly nefarious nature of Agenda The sheriffs reiterated complaints, fairly common in the West, about the large proportion of land controlled by the federal government and logging, mineral extraction and grazing rights on public lands, and related them to Agenda 21 and its alleged attack on private property rights in America.

In June , the organization held a similar session during its second annual conference. The Declaration Alliance was founded in by three-time presidential candidate and former U.

Keyes first came out against Agenda 21 in a blog post that charged that the government was allowing the UN to take over American treasures by designating them World Heritage Sites. The organization is not solely focused on Agenda 21, although sustainable development and its alleged perils are discussed.

Nita Still, a Montague, Calif. The vast majority of opponents of Agenda 21 come from the right, mostly the far right. But in the case of Rosa Koire pronounced CORE-ee , a self-described lesbian feminist and longtime forensic commercial real estate appraiser specializing in eminent domain evaluation, the criticism is ostensibly coming from the left.

She also claims that the Democratic Party has been hijacked by socialists. After that, Koire sounds like most Agenda 21 fearmongers. Koire authored a book, Behind the Green Mask: U. The group has long been involved in a wide array of highly conservative causes, many of them having to do with with women and the family — opposition to abortion, sex education in public schools, working mothers and feminism in general.

It also favors English as our official language, assimilation of immigrants, and the right to bear arms. Finally, it opposes international oversight by the United Nations. In that vein, the Eagle Forum came out relatively recently against Agenda 21, forming the Agenda 21 Task Force to lead the battle.

Michael Coffman founded Environmental Perspectives Inc. It is to establish global governance and abandon the principles of natural law. Jim DeMint R-S.