Well, since the “Cap-n-Trade” Bill, code named H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, aka the Waxman-Markey contribution to national decline has passed into law, thanks quite literally to the eight Republicans who voted for it, Republicans who it will be shown, I’m sure, to have some sort of financial interest to gain, I thought it my duty to sully the shiny venier of this thing a bit by giving you some of the background of the philosophy behind this movement.
It’s called “Agenda 21.” As early as 1992, the UN passed a resolution called the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. This was the framework around which the much more detailed and ambitious “Agenda 21” was constructed. Though it is the form of an “advisory” resolution, bearing no legal weight with non-signatories, its content and verbiage are clearly reflected in a great deal of the “green” legislation still being forced on American citizens over 15 years later.
Below are some of the “Principles” of the Agenda in which I think you might be interested (all emphasis mine):
Principle 2
States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, {{and here’s the “but”}}and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or ontrol do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
Which can, of course, be taken to mean almost anything, because under current definitions, any “greenhouse gas” emissions affect global climate, and so anything you “emit” affects “other states. So this clause is in effect, self-nullifying. You can can do whatever you want as a nation, as long as you can guarantee that your pollution won’t cross national boundaries. Right.
Principle 5
All States and all people shall cooperate in the essential task of eradicating poverty as an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, in order to decrease the disparities in standards of living and better meet the needs of the majority of the people of the world.
Because the “disparities” in standard of living are somehow “unfair.” What this fails to consider is that one absolutely essential elements of eradicating poverty is dragging people kicking and screaming into the 21st century, not returning us to the stone age through misguided and counterproductive environmental do-goodedness! You notice it says, “decrease the disparities.” I doesn’t mention which direction you should move to close the gap! Make the poor rich by making the rich poorer, and we’ll meet somewhere in the middle. Doesn’t this sound like Obama’s “spread the wealth around” idea? Gee, I wonder where he got it?
Principle 13
States shall develop national law regarding liability and compensation for the victims of pollution and other environmental damage.
Look at that for a sec. We are encouraged/required to codify into national law procedures for compensating “victims of pollution.” How delightfully vague! So now we move beyong hate crimes, to environmental crimes. Or maybe that’s now redundant, eh?
Principle 15
In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.
BINGO! Lack of scientific certainty shouldn’t stand in the way of passing a whole boatload of environmental policies designed not so much to save the environment, as to generate cash for social programs and politicial agenda setting. Is this sounding oh so vaguely familiar, when our POTUS appoints an “environmental” czar with no scientific training, but lots of financial experience? With the “global warming” scare being debunked by more and more of the scientific community, and yet still being ramrodded into law by a compliant legislative branch?
Principle 21
The creativity, ideals and courage of the youth of the world should be mobilized to forge a global partnership in order to achieve sustainable development and ensure a better future for all.
AmeriCorps anyone? Mandatory service in exchange for tuition? This ringing any bells?
Here’s a nice one:
4.22. They should also encourage the emergence of an informed consumer public and assist individuals and households to make environmentally informed choices by:
(a) Providing information on the consequences of consumption choices and behaviour so as to encourage demand for environmentally sound products and use of products;
(b) Making consumers aware of the health and environmental impact of products, through such means as consumer legislation and environmental labelling;
Think about how everything you hear these days is about “being green.” It’s green construction, and green products, and green this and green that. It’s not merely a reflection of a growing social consciousness about these issues, it is a carefully managed and orchestrated campaign to INSTILL this “consciousness” in society. What, don’t you care about the environment? Well, then, give up phosphates in your dishwashing detergent, hater!
In short, we are being brainwashed. According to a plan, and a schedule.
The clincher is right here in paragragh 4.25, labelled “Moving towards environmentally sound pricing.” And I quote:
4.25. Some progress has begun in the use of appropriate economic instruments to influence consumer behaviour. These instruments include environmental charges and taxes, deposit/refund systems, etc. This process should be encouraged in the light of country-specific conditions.
Cap & Trade, as billed and promised, is a mechanism whereby we force consumers to consume less by imposing “environmental charges & taxes” on both products and the means of production. Obama wasn’t kidding around when he said, quite clearly, that he intended to destroy coal-based electricity in this country. Captain Trade is certainly powerful enough to do it!
You owe it to yourself to read up on Agenda 21, and the other UN-“mandated” programs that are behind all this green mania. If it doesn’t shock you, then you are one of “them.”
Bill Clinton tried to push through the Kyoto Protocol, but Congress was at least semi-conscious enough at the time to see what a nightmare that thing would have been economically for our country. Now Pres. Obama has managed to push through the Waxman Cap & Trade nightmare, which will accomplish much the same thing.
If your realize nothing else from this post, realize that all that is being promoted under the auspices of “enviromentalism” has, at its core, the goal of compliance with global mandates designed to bring us more and more under the authority of organizations like the UN.
Locally, as in, in this country, it’s also about using a mechanism against which they’ve already made it hard to argue, and nearly impossible to oppose, in order to generate new revenue streams for funding socialist welfare programs like the “health care plan” and all the other things rolled up in the stiumulous packages.
You were wondering how they were going to pay for all that? Here ya go.
These people care far less about preserveing the environment than they do about getting their hands on your money. What little they will leave you.
THIS IS NOT ACCIDENTAL. This is a premeditated, long-running agenda. And it is Euro-style marxist dialectic to its core.
To sum up: It is the stated intention of the marxist environmental movement which is slowly ruining this country to pass legislation and impose fees and fines to the point where goods and services become so expensive that you are forced to use less. The money made from all these extortion schemes will then be funnelled to the “poor” countries via mechanisms such as, you guessed it, the United Nations…the very organization pushing these agendas. A rather suspicious conflict of interest, wouldn’t you say?
And all those companies poised to make millions trading in carbon offsets.
Tattered Bits of Brain 