by Tom DeWeese
February 04, 2021
from
AmericanPolicyCenter Website
The birth-pangs of Technocracy are painful and messy
as pseudo-science is pitted against real science.
Climate change (and the COVID-19 panic) are
instruments used to stampede the world into
'Sustainable Development,' aka
'Technocracy.'
Will the lies ever stop?
Not likely.
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Man-made Climate Change (aka 'Global Warming') is being used as the
catalyst for tall tales of melting ice caps, drowning polar bears,
and flooded islands.
It's even being blamed for a rise in wars and
poverty. In the name of 'Climate Change' there is a drive to destroy
Free markets and the very concepts of limited Government, private
property, and individual liberty.
We're told that we must all sacrifice and give up our "selfish"
lifestyle as we are required to "live on less" - to save the planet.
And above all, we are warned not to question any of this because the
science is settled.
The debate is over. Stop talking about it - We
must act NOW!
But what are the facts?
What is the basis of the Climate Change
charges, and why is there no room for a difference of opinion, no
matter what new facts may be discovered?
In short, what is the true
"end game?"
Climate Change alarmists claim that about 2700 scientists agree with
them and that these represent about 97% of all scientists.
And so,
they claim, it is an indisputable fact. But the fact is, there is no
consensus in the scientific community over Climate Change. A U.S.
Senate minority report says more than 650 scientists express dissent
over man-made global warming claims.
In addition, over 30,000
scientists have signed on to a petition that says there is no
convincing evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or
other greenhouse gasses causes or will... cause catastrophic heating
of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.
Now, I'm not a scientist, but neither is Al Gore.
However I know
that true science is rarely settled. Consensus means nothing.
Science isn't a democracy in which the one idea with the most votes
wins. Science is based on fact - provable fact.
It doesn't matter
how many agree or disagree.
Truth in science is all that matters.
But if you cut off anyone's ability to even question someone's
findings you have fallen prey to a specific political agenda. And
that is exactly what we are facing.
You can obviously run down a lot of rabbit holes in trying to
discuss man-made Climate Change. But the real question is this:
is
climate change caused by man or is temperature change really just
from natural causes...?
That is the debate - the ONLY debate.
The
answer to that question is mandatory before we allow Climate Change
forces to begin to impose massive regulations that will control,
perhaps even destroy human existence.
Those pushing the Climate Change position insist that it is not of
natural causes. They declare that the warming is purely man-made
from pollution - specifically emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere.
They say that is creating what has been called a Green House effect
as the CO2 becomes trapped, forcing a warming of the Earth.
It's absolutely vital that they win that argument because IF climate
change is actually proven to be from natural causes and not
man-made, then their entire argument would fail and their entire
political agenda will collapse along with their influence over
government policy and their access to massive amounts of money.
Is
it any wonder that they are very nervous about those they call
climate skeptics - those scientists and spokesmen who dispute their
dire findings about the climate?
That's why, to maintain control, radical environmental forces, such
as the Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, and the World Wildlife Fund,
have used their power and influence over scientific journals to
block the publication of any reports to the contrary. They have
moved to block research grants to anyone who doesn't toe the party
line.
Al Gore has called for Nuremberg-style public trials for
anyone publicly questioning or disputing the claims of global
warming. No discouraging word is to be heard.
But if Global Warming is so real - non-debatable - then,
what are
they so afraid of?
Why such dire efforts to stop anyone from
expressing doubts?
The fact is - and they are well aware of this -
there simply is no evidence of man-made global warming.
According to scientist Joanne Nova, a former climate change
alarmists - turned skeptic, if greenhouse gases are warming the
earth, then, by now, we are supposed to see the first signs of it in
a patch of air 10 kilometers above the tropics. But this hot spot
just isn't there.
MIT scientist Willie Soon, wrote that the warming during the past 30
year period was basically caused by storm activity on the Sun.
He
titled his report,
"It's the Sun,
Stupid!"
In 1985, Ice cores extracted from Greenland revealed temperatures
and CO2 levels going back 150,000 years.
The original data seemed to
indicate that temperatures and CO2 were locked together, thus giving
birth to both the theory of the "greenhouse effect" and the climate
change movement.
But in 1999, scientists began to find that carbon
levels actually rose and fell "AFTER" the temperatures did.
And by
2003 scientists had much better data to show that the lag between
temperatures rising and rising carbon levels was a lag of as much as
800 years.
Skeptic scientists who question the validity of the man-made Climate
Change argument say that, if CO2 was a major driver of temperature
change then they would rise indefinitely in a "runaway" greenhouse
effect.
That hasn't happened in 500 million years.
Their conclusion
is that CO2 is obviously trivial in determining what causes
temperature changes. Something else is causing global warming.
What we have experienced is a tsunami of data from computer models
and government warming data collection thermometers screaming about
massive warming taking place. The models are man-made and THEY are
wrong.
These are the facts:
There has been no warming - at all - in
the past 18 years.
If anything, we are seeing a cooling period
beginning.
That is completely natural. It gets cold. It gets hot.
The North and South Poles are not melting.
The ice is actually
growing thicker.
Global sea ice is at a record high.
So the sea levels are not rising and islands are not about to drown.
And neither are polar bears.
Their population is actually increasing
by large numbers. Tropical rain forests are growing faster than
scientists thought, due to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere.
CO2 is
actually good for nature.
What, then, is the
true end game?
Why are they so
desperate to hang on to the Climate Change argument, no matter
how many times it is disproved?
Christine Stewart, the
former Canadian Minister of the Environment, said,
"No matter if the
science of global warming is all phony...climate change provides
the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in
the world."
Timothy Wirth, formally of the Clinton Administration, and now the
President of the UN Foundation, said,
"We've got to ride this global
warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we
will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental
policy."
In other words, the end justifies the means!
What do these two quotes tell you?
They hint that there is a bigger
agenda than environmental protection in the Climate Change
enforcement drive.
They talk about economics and justice.
Can it be
that the environment serves simply as the excuse to disguise a
larger plan?
Can such a diabolical plan exist? Or is that just a conspiracy
theory from paranoid right wing fringe fanatics.
The Club of Rome,
one of the premier power forces working under the UN tent said in
one of its reports,
"In searching for a
new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution,
the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the
like, would fit the bill.
All of these dangers
are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed
attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then,
is humanity itself."
National sovereignty, free enterprise, and private property
ownership were all targeted as an evil oppressor that must be
eliminated in the name of peace, health and happiness.
As this
process moved forward there were public statements that hinted of
what was to come.
Paul Ehrlich, now a Professor of Population Studies at Stanford
University said,
"A massive campaign
must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development
means brining our economic system into line with the realities
of ecology and the world resource situation."
And then in
1992, the United Nation's Earth Summit in Rio introduced
the master plan - what they called a "Comprehensive Blue Print" for
reorganizing human society.
It was called
Agenda 21...
The UN explained Agenda 21 like this,
"Effective execution
of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human
society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced.
A major shift in the
priorities of both government and individuals and an
unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources.
This shift will
demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of
every human action be integrated into individual and collective
decision-making at every level."
Maurice Strong, Chairman of the Earth Summit, summed it all up in
his official address to the Summit when he said,
"Isn't the only hope
for the planet that the industrial nations collapse?
Isn't it our
responsibility to bring that about?"
And isn't that exactly what we see happening in the United States
and in industrial nations around the world?
Always the same three
words were used to describe the all-encompassing reach of this new
Comprehensive Blue Print. Those words are, Economy, Equity, and
Environment. Better known as the Three Es.
It started as Agenda 21,
then became
Agenda 2030, now it's the
Green New Deal, and its racing
into policy across the nation from city council, to county
commission to state legislature.
Social
Equity
Social Equity is based on a demand for "social justice."
Social
Equity and Social Justice require that the world's wealth be
redistributed according to government dictates.
No private property.
No private industry.
Black Lives Matter and
ANTIFA are demonstrating
how 'Social Justice' will work for you.
Pay attention...
Economic
Prosperity
At the root of Agenda 21 economics are Public/Private Partnerships -
pulled together into a government-driven economy called
"corporatism."
The partnerships allow for special tax breaks; access
to certain lands for some developers, but not others; non-compete
clauses in government projects that guarantee profits for some,
access to grants and lucrative special government projects, and much
more.
Corporations that play ball get the power of government and
Government gets to hide behind the independence of private business.
Nearly every state is now working on legislation to make this
official government policy.
It's called Benefit Corporations...
This is the new way business is being run in America under
Sustainable Development.
The business plan of the day - lobby for
regulations.
Destroy your competition with regulations and gather
the goodies for yourself.
Watch how many millions of dollars these
global corporations are donating to BLM to achieve more power.
It's not free enterprise.
The true description is
government-sanctioned monopolies, right out of the Mussolini fascist
play book...
Ecological
Integrity
That's just the excuse for it all.
To understand the power of this
transformation of society under sustainable development, consider
this quote from the UN's Biodiversity treaty which was also
introduced at the 1992 Earth Summit:
"Nature has an
integral set of different values (cultural, spiritual and
material) where humans are one strand in nature's web and all
living creatures are considered equal.
Therefore the natural
way is the right way and human activities should be molded along
nature's rhythms."
This quote lays down,
the ground rules for the entire
Sustainable
Development agenda.
And only a strong, central, all-powerful
government can protect the environment. Individuals and limited
government can't be trusted because man is nothing more than a swarm
of locusts which swoops down on nature and sucks it clean until
there is nothing left.
Nothing good comes from man, according to
Sustainablist doctrine...
Agenda 21 is a threat to our nation, to your local community, to you
- because it IS a comprehensive blueprint specifically designed to
change our way of life and our form of government.
Al Gore, in his
book, Earth in the Balance, said we would have to go through a "wrenching transformation" to rid us of the horrors of the Twentieth
Centuries' Industrial Revolution.
Christiana Figueres (Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change), the woman in charge of the drive to impose global
warming policy, said just couple of months ago,
"This is the first
time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the
task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to
change the economic development model that has been reigning for
at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution..."
Can their goals be any
clearer...?
But, how do you take such radical, obviously Socialist ideas and
enforce them in the number one free market nation on Earth?
Answer:
impose it on the local level in every community in the nation.
The American Planning Association
(APA) is the largest planning group in
the nation. They are operating in almost every community.
The APA is
part of the Planners Network which promotes a statement of
principles that reads,
"We believe planning should be a tool for
allocating resources... and eliminating the great inequalities of
wealth and power in society... because the free market has proven
incapable of doing this."
That is what every planner in every
community believes and that is what is incorporated in every
planning program they create.
Author Ted Trainer, explains how and why to impose the local process
as he described it in his book, "Transition to a Sustainable and
Just World."
"Consumer society cannot be reformed to make it
sustainable or just; it must be largely replaced by a society with
fundamentally different structures.
Local planning focuses on
curtailing energy and natural resource and land use."
Says Trainer,
"The essential aim is not to fight against consumer-capitalist
society, but to build the alternative to it."
And that's exactly
what Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development are designed to do:
build an alternative to our American Republic of elected,
representative, limited government...
There are three main targets of attack:
-
Destroy private
property ownership and control.
-
Impose regional
councils and government, taking government further away from
the people.
-
Feed the plan
with federal grant money.
From the 1992 UN Earth
Summit, the process moved forward rapidly.
President
Bill Clinton
created by Executive Order, the President's Council on Sustainable
Development.
Through the Council, the same
Non-governmental
Organizations (NGOs) which had helped to create Agenda 21, now
fanned out into the federal bureaucracy.
They helped to write the
grant programs through nearly every federal agency.
These grants,
touted as voluntary, came armed with specific dictates to any
community that took the grant - detailing specific programs and
guidelines that must be followed.
Those guidelines were the
specifics of the implementation of
Agenda 21.
Armed with such regulations and the federal grants, the same NGO's
then descended on state legislatures to pressure for passage of
regulations to force every community to prepare a comprehensive
development plan.
Then those same NGO's headed to the local
communities to "help" them write and implement those master plans.
And of course, they came loaded down with the necessary money to pay
for it - the federal grants.
The grants, through HUD, the EPA and
nearly every other agency in the Federal Government are the kool-aid
used to spread the policy into your community.
The rules impose guidelines created on the international level for,
-
building materials, building, plumbing, and electric codes
-
installing bike lanes
-
building apartment buildings with no parking
lots
-
establishment of public transportation, including light
rail trains to discourage the use of private transportation...
Not to
mention restrictions on water and energy use...
If a community takes the grant, they accept the restrictions. In
short, they must implement the guidelines of Agenda 21. In the back
rooms of city hall and the state legislature, your government
officials work hand-in-hand to write policy with the very NGOs which
created Agenda 21.
And what are the results of this internationally-created,
federally-funded, and state-enforced assault on your local community
and your own home?
Private property rights are disappearing; energy
is being tightly controlled; jobs are disappearing; community
development means pack and stack high rise housing; and bike paths
are jamming roads as taxes are skyrocketing.
The function of legitimate elected government within the
Sustainablist system is fast becoming little more than the rubber
stamp to create and enforce the dictates of something called
Stakeholder Councils - run by - you guessed it - the same NGO
organizations that wrote Agenda 21 in the first place.
It's the
demise of representative government.
The UN Commission on Global Governance said:
"Regionalism must
precede globalism.
We foresee a seamless system of governance from
local communities, individual states, regional unions and up through
the United Nations itself."
Is it then a coincidence that
regionalism is becoming the fastest growing change in how our
government is operating?
Why does it seem so difficult today to deal with government - to get
them to listen to you?
Because you don't count...
Local control is
gone. They make their plans in the back rooms, out of sight and out
of reach of the people. These non-elected regional councils should
never have the power to legislate.
That must only be done by actual
elected bodies directly representing and answerable to you.
This is
how government is spiraling out of control under Sustainable
Development. The main change from all of this growth in the power of
government is corruption and loss of control by the people.
The economics of so-called
Sustainable Smart Growth are sobering and
hit few harder than the poor and young families just starting out.
A
recent report by the real estate data firm
Zillow says that
developers are no longer planning to build starter homes for young
or low income buyers.
The only homes they plan to build are those
for the rich or federally-subsidized low-income apartments.
To get you out of your cars, the State of Washington's legislature
has set a target of reducing per capita driving of cars by 50% by
2050.
Oregon is the first state to implement plans to measure how
many miles you drive per year and tax it. Oregon is also the first
state to ban zoning protections for single-family homes.
There are
plans now to install devises that will allow the government to shut
off your car if your drive too much.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, thousands of low income families are
being uprooted from their homes and relocated, often against their
will, into "Preferred Development Areas."
Yet, as Americans are being forced to live this way, all under the
excuse of environmental protection - here is the kicker - the little
known fact - that none of it is necessary - because it doesn't work...
A few years ago, the American Planning Association did a study to
see if all of their efforts to enforce Smart Growth worked.
Would
you be shocked to learn that the APA's own study reported that Smart
Growth does not work...?!
Here is the final concluding paragraph of that APA-sponsored study:
"The current planning policy strategies for land use and
transportation have virtually no impact on the major long term
increases in resource and energy consumption.
They generally tend to
increase costs and reduce economic competitiveness...
In many cases,
the socioeconomic consequences of less housing choices, crowding,
and congestion may outweigh the very modest CO2 reduction
benefits."
The fact is,
Smart Growth really means the end of private property
rights and single family homes,
...to force us to live in stack and
pack high rises where,
-
residents are over-taxed, over-regulated
-
rents are high
-
individual thoughts and actions are viewed as a
threat to the "well-ordered society"...
THIS is what your local officials are telling you is a LOCAL plan.
Yet, every plan is the same - across the nation. And every single
one of these programs is now being enforced in your local planning
boards.
This top down control is the perfect description of a "Soviet"...
And
THAT is what 'Sustainable Development' is.
THAT is what the
comprehensive blue print is in action!
THAT is what regional
planning really is.
THAT is Agenda 21.
And THAT is the root of the
Biden Administration's "Great Reset" policy...
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