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The United Nations says that
the earth is in great danger and that the way you and I are living is the
problem. In a shocking new report entitled, "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth
Choosing" the UN declares that the entire way that we currently
approach economics needs to be changed. Instead of focusing on things
like "economic growth", the UN is encouraging nations all over the
world to start basing measurements of economic success on the goal of achieving
"sustainable development". But there is a huge problem with
that. The UN says that what we are doing right now is
"unsustainable" by definition, and the major industrialized nations
of the western world are the biggest culprits. According to the UN, since
we are the ones that create the most carbon emissions and the most pollution,
we are the ones that should make the biggest sacrifices. In addition,
since we have the most money, we should also be willing to finance the
transition of the developing world to a "sustainable development"
economy as well. As you will see detailed in the rest of this article,
the United Nations basically wants to crash the world economy in order to save
the environment. Considering the fact that the U.S. and Europe are in the
midst of a horrible economic crisis and are already drowning in debt,
this is something that we simply cannot afford.
There is certainly nothing
wrong with taking care of the environment. But what the United Nations
wants is a fundamental restructuring of the global economy based on flawed
science.
In this new UN report,
we find the following statement....
Achieving sustainability requires us to transform the global
economy. Tinkering on the margins will not do the job.
This is absolutely crucial to understand.
The folks over at the UN don't just want to change things a
little.
Their goal is a radical transformation of the entire world.
According to the United Nations, if we don't implement their
recommendations the consequences will be absolutely disastrous....
But what, then, is to be done if we are to make a real
difference for the world’s people and the planet? We must grasp the dimensions
of the challenge. We must recognize that the drivers of that challenge include
unsustainable lifestyles, production and consumption patterns and the impact of
population growth. As the global population grows from 7 billion to almost 9
billion by 2040, and the number of middle-class consumers increases by 3 billion
over the next 20 years, the demand for resources will rise exponentially. By
2030, the world will need at least 50 percent more food, 45 percent more energy
and 30 percent more water — all at a time when environmental boundaries are
throwing up new limits to supply. This is true not least for climate change,
which affects all aspects of human and planetary health.
So what changes are needed in order for us to achieve a
"sustainable" global economy?
Well, the following are some of the disturbing recommendations
that we find in the new UN report....
Raise Prices
According to the United Nations, we need to start significantly
raising the prices of things that are made in an "unsustainable" way
so that they reflect the "true cost" of their production....
Most goods and services sold today fail to bear the full
environmental and social cost of production and consumption. Based on the
science, we need to reach consensus, over time, on methodologies to price them
properly. Costing environmental externalities could open new opportunities for
green growth and green jobs
That means that you and I would start paying a lot more for the
basic things that we need every day - food, gasoline, etc.
Carbon Taxes
The UN report also discusses the need to use regulations and taxation
as tools to penalize economic activities that are not
"sustainable"....
Establish natural resource and externality pricing instruments,
including carbon pricing, through mechanisms such as taxation, regulation or
emissions trading systems, by 2020
This is one of the favorite things that social engineers like to
do. They love to use taxation and regulations as weapons to get people to
do the things they want.
Base Lending Decisions On Sustainable Development Criteria
The United Nations is actually suggesting that lending decisions
be based on whether or not the money will be used for something
"sustainable"....
Reform national fiscal and credit systems to provide long-term
incentives for sustainable practices, as well as disincentives for
unsustainable behaviour
Considering the fact that the entire global economy is based on
credit, this is a very dangerous recommendation.
Green Jobs
The UN report also says that governments all over the world
should seek to create as many "green jobs" as possible....
Governments should adopt and advance “green jobs” and decent
work policies as a priority in their budgets and sustainable development
strategies while creating conditions for new jobs in the private sector.
This is something that we have seen Barack Obama try to do, but
obviously he has not had much success at it.
A New Economic Paradigm
According to the UN, the very way that we define "economic
success" needs to be changed. Instead of looking at statistics such
as GDP and inflation, we should be measuring what we do by how much it gets us
closer to a "sustainable world"....
Expanding how we measure progress in sustainable development by
creating a sustainable development index or set of indicators
So an economic collapse could actually be "good" if we
make "progress" toward the goal of sustainable development.
Wealthy Countries Funding The Sustainable Development Goals Of
Poor Countries
The UN report makes it clear that you and I will be paying for
sustainable development all over the world in addition to paying for our own
transition to a sustainable economy....
Financing sustainable development requires vast new sources of
capital from both private and public sources. It requires both mobilizing more
public funds and using global and national capital to leverage global private
capital through the development of incentives. Official development assistance
will also remain critical for the sustainable development needs of low-income
countries
But considering the fact that the United States is already flat
broke, where are we going to come up with all of this money?
Teach Sustainable Development To Our Children
The United Nations also believes that this philosophy of
"sustainable development" should be taught to children in public
schools all over the globe....
Government and non-governmental entities should promote the
concept of sustainable development and sustainable consumption, and these
should be integrated into curricula of primary and secondary education.
Sadly, this agenda is already being pushed on our children in
schools all over the United States. When these children grow up, the
concepts behind "sustainable development" will be second nature for
them.
Population Control
Those that believe in sustainable development want to reduce
carbon emissions by as much as possible.
When you sit down and really think about that, it becomes quite
frightening.
Nearly every form of economic activity produces carbon
emissions.
In fact, if you just sit in your home and breathe, you are
producing carbon emissions.
So to them, you and I are the problem.
For those that are worried about man-made global warming, the
math is simple.
The more people on earth, the higher the level of carbon
emissions will be.
The less people on earth, the lower the level of carbon
emissions will be.
So those that believe in sustainable development love to promote
things that will reduce the human population of the earth.
In fact, we see this agenda reflected in one of the
recommendations of the new UN report....
Ensuring universal access to quality and affordable
family-planning and other sexual and reproductive rights and health services.
If more women have access to abortion facilities, then less
babies will be born. For those that believe in sustainable development,
that is a good thing.
But the UN has been pushing this kind of agenda for a long time.
For example, the United Nations Population Fund released a
report back in 2009 entitled "Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate"
that included the following very chilling statement....
"Each birth results not only in the emissions attributable
to that person in his or her lifetime, but also the emissions of all his or her
descendants. Hence, the emissions savings from intended or planned births
multiply with time."
This population control agenda is also being heavily promoted by
many of the wealthiest people in the world. Many big
"philanthropists" such as Bill Gates are using their money to fund
research into population control measures. For example, Gates is
currently funding research on "cutting edge" forms of birth control
that could potentially be used all over the world. The following comes
from a recent Natural
News article....
Mass vaccination is apparently not the only depopulation
strategy being employed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as new
research funded by the organization has developed a way to deliberately destroy
sperm using ultrasound technology. BBC News reports that the Gates Foundation
awarded a grant to researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) to
develop this new method of contraception.
For their study, the UNC team tested ultrasound on lab rats and
found that two 15-minute doses "significantly reduced" both sperm
counts and sperm integrity. When administered two days apart through warm salt
water, ultrasound caused the rats' sperm counts to drop below ten million sperm
per milliliter, which is five million less than the "sub-fertile"
range, and stay that way for up to six months.
This population
control agenda is one of the most frightening elements of
sustainable development. Many advocates of sustainable development would
actually cheer if something suddenly caused the population of the earth to drop
dramatically.
Much Stronger Global Governance
The new UN report also advocates stronger "international
governance" by bodies such as the United Nations....
International institutions have a critical role. International
governance for sustainable development must be strengthened by using existing
institutions more dynamically and by considering the creation of a global
sustainable development council and the adoption of sustainable development
goals
But this has been the ultimate goal of these control freaks for
a long time. The idea is that a "global government" and a
"global economy" will bring a great era of peace and prosperity to
all of humanity.
Of course that is a complete and total lie, but there are a lot
of people out there that actually believe this stuff.
In fact, the economic crisis that we are going through right now
has renewed calls for a "global currency" which would be used by the
whole world.
For example, you can watch banker Evelyn de Rothschild discuss
the "need" for an "international currency" on Bloomberg
Television in the
following video....
The new UN report reflects this globalist agenda. The
report states that "the peoples of the world" are not going to put up
with all of this "inequality" any longer and that they will be
demanding that their national governments adopt a "sustainable
development" agenda....
"The peoples of the world will simply not tolerate
continued environmental devastation or the persistent inequality which offends
deeply held universal principles of social justice. Citizens will no longer
accept governments and corporations breaching their compact with them as
custodians of a sustainable future for all. More generally, international,
national and local governance across the world must fully embrace the
requirements of a sustainable development future, as must civil society and the
private sector."
If you want to get a really good idea of what a
"sustainable development" society would look like, just check out the
video posted below....
If you do not want to end up living in a
"Planned-opolis" where virtually everything you do is watched,
tracked and controlled by bureaucratic control freaks, then you better say
something now.
If the United Nations actually succeeded in implementing this
agenda worldwide, it would crash the global economy and it would be the end of
national sovereignty.
Unfortunately, many of those that are promoting this agenda are
absolute fanatics about it because they are convinced that they are saving the
planet. They are so obsessed with "rescuing the earth" that
they would do almost anything to all the rest of us in order to accomplish that
goal.
Yes, we need to be concerned about the future of the planet, but
the truth is that the "sustainable development" agenda is
based on flawed science and it would make our economic problems far
worse.
But the control freaks that are obsessed with "sustainable development"
are going to continue to try to cram this agenda down our throats, so this is a
battle that is likely to go on for many years.’