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The United Nations plans to make its Rio+20
Sustainable Development Conference the most significant environmental
conference in history. A
draft
planning and agenda document, The Future We Want, marked-up by myriad
ultra-liberal NGOs, provides an unvarnished look at what lurks behind
Rio+20.Americans, their free world partners and
people in developing nations who hope to lift themselves out of poverty
should be on their guard. Otherwise Rio+20 could easily trap them in a
future we dread, said Craig Rucker, CEO of the Committee For A Constructive
Tomorrow, a Washington, DC-based organization that advances the needs of
people, while also protecting wildlife and environmental values.The UNs international NGO allies want to
expand previous calls for a green economy, by including new demands for
resource justice and new mechanisms to ensure contraction and convergence
for over- and under-consumers of natural resources. People do not need
advanced degrees to figure out whose economies and lifestyles the activists
intend to contract, Rucker commented.Another agenda item would have the world end
speculation in energy, raw material and economic markets. However, history
has taught that it is extremely difficult even to define speculation, and
that attempts to control investment, development and resource allocation
frequently end in disaster.The international non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) also advocate making national environmental policies
subject to international legal frameworks and regulations, and
strengthening international environmental governance within the
institutional framework of sustainable development. That would make
national sovereignty the most endangered species in Rio, CFACT
president David Rothbard stated.The NGOs would place both nature and man in
jeopardy, since they call for curbs on any technologies that might imply a
serious risk for the environment or human society, including in particular
synthetic biology, geo-engineering, genetic modification, nuclear energy and
nanotechnology, Rothbard observed.They would curtail the very technologies that
allow us to provide for peoples needs in the most efficient, least
intrusive manner. Few policies are more counterproductive than forcing
people to grow low yield crops that are susceptible to insects and drought,
or to rely on inefficient energy technologies, he said.The document also seeks to impose staggering
financial burdens on people in developed nations. It would give the UN 0.7%
of a nations gross domestic product some $1,325 per year for an American
family of four. A Canadian family would pay $1,211, while their counterparts
would be taxed $1,206 in Germany and $1,171 in Japan. Norwegian families
would take dubious first place honors, paying a whopping $2,445 every year.
Other countries obligations, based on World Bank 2010 data, can be
found on CFACT.tv.The NGOs’ most popular agenda item appears to
be increased funding and powers for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP),
which they want to turn into an international version of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. People concerned about the impacts that
EPA has had on American energy prices and jobs for minimal health or
environmental benefits should be especially wary of giving vast new powers
and funding to the UNEP, which is completely unelected and unaccountable,
Rucker commented.On climate and energy, activists claiming to
be acting for indigenous peoples said the UN should insist that developed
countries shift rapidly to low-carbon energy use. Not to be outdone,
environmental NGOs are demanding that developed countries cut carbon dioxide
emissions by 95% by 2050. That would take the United States back to what it
emitted around the time of the Civil War, while accomplishing nothing for
the climate.To pay for this expansive eco-wish list, the
United Nations and NGOs also want to give the UN authority to tax every
currency conversion and financial transaction, fuel sales and air travel
tickets and seize all funds that currently provide subsidies and tax
deductions for fossil fuel and nuclear power. These funds would be in
addition to the extensive foreign aid already provided by taxpayers and
treasuries of developed nations.CFACT invites people to
examine this remarkable document at CFACT.tv and determine for
themselves how much it actually represents the future we want.The Committee is taking a delegation to
Brazil to expose these potentially devastating policy proposals. We also
intend to inject some much needed common sense into the deliberations, and
ensure that at least some consideration is given to the needs of real
people, especially the worlds poor and not just to the unreasonable and
often outrageous demands of Deep Ecology, anti-development activists,
Rucker said.CFACT is your best source for Rio+20
news and analysis that challenges the status quo. More information will be
available soon including video, photographs, news and commentary at
CFACT.tv,
CFACT.org and
ClimateDepot.com. CFACTs experts are available to all media.-# # # –
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“…we have
this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the
power may be of God and not of us. We are
~ hard pressed on every
side, yet not crushed…
~ perplexed, but not in despair;
~ persecuted, but not forsaken;
~ struck down, but not destroyed
always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.” 2 Corinthians
4:7-10