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http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/art...01klamathun.htm In response to the growing interest in the environment, the United Nations scheduled an international conference in Stockholm in 1972, The United Nations Conference on Human Environment (UNCHE) and named Maurice Strong as Secretary-General of the event. Among its many recommendations, the conference report called for the creation of a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - a permanent agency to oversee environmental concerns. Maurice Strong was named as its first Director.
Strong first worked for the United Nations in 1947, at the age of 18, in New York, where he rented a room in the home of the U.N. Treasurer. There he met many people who later helped advance his career. His colorful resume includes a time as President of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, advisor to, or a member of the board of the IUCN, WWF, WRI, the Rockefeller Foundation - and many other rich and powerful organizations.
The EPA in the United States parallels the development of the UNEP. From the outset, the two agencies shared common goals, and through common membership in the IUCN, many of the same people.
Another U.N. conference in 1976 added substantially to the U.N.'s interest in the environment: The United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT I), in Vancouver, British Columbia. Richard K. Reilly was a delegate representing the United States, as was Carla Hill, who later became George H.W. Bush's chief trade negotiator, responsible for the development of the World Trade Organization. Agenda item number 10, was titled "Land." Here, for the first time, the United Nations articulated its policy on land and land use. A segment from the preamble of this item, will suggest the report's content:
"Land...cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; Public control of land use is therefore indispensable...."
The document reflects many of the ideas expressed in the work of Bill Reilly's 1973 report on land use, prepared for the Rockefeller Commission, and his unsuccessful Land Use Planning Act.
Among the more important but lesser known organizations formed during this period are the Club of Rome (COR -- 1968) and the Trilateral Commission (TC -- 1973). The COR is a small group of international industrialists, educators, economists, national and international civil servants. Among them were various Rockefellers, and approximately 25 CFR members. Maurice Strong was one of the "international" civil servants. (5)
Their first book, The Limits to Growth, published in 1972, unabashedly describes the world as they believe it should be:
"We believe in fact that the need will quickly become evident for social innovation to match technical change, for radical reform of the institutions and political processes at all levels, including the highest, that of world polity. And since intellectual enlightenment is without effect if it is not also political, The Club of Rome also will encourage the creation of a world forum where statesmen, policy-makers, and scientists can discuss the dangers and hopes for the future global system without the constraints of formal intergovernmental negotiation."
The U.N.'s world conferences proved to be a very successful tool through which the United Nations could control "intergovernmental negotiations," and draw international attention to an issue of concern, and then develop a response to that concern, for implementation through the various U.N. agencies and the governments of participating member nations.
And this:
Roads to be closed
http://www.freedom.org/reports/fluc.htm The objective
The ultimate objective of the NGOs is to implement the policies of the United Nations as published in the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Biodiversity Assessment, Agenda 21, and other treaties and documents. The objective is so bizarre, so foreign to the ideas of Jefferson and Madison, the ideas on which America was founded, that free market property rights advocates have discounted their ideas as the lunatic fringe of the environmental movement.
The preservationist objective is only suggested by Aldo Leopold in his 1949 Sand County Almanac. He says: "We are only fellow-voyagers with other creatures in the odyssey of evolution." An awareness of which "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it."16
Dave Foreman, father of the Wildlands Project, sheds more light on the ultimate objective of the preservationists:
"We should demand that roads be closed and clearcuts rehabilitated, that dams be torn down, that wolves, grizzlies, cougars, river otters, bison, elk, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, caribou and other extirpated species be reintroduced to their native habitats. We must envision and propose the restoration of biological wildernesses of several million acres in all of America's ecosystems, with corridors between them for the transmission of genetic variability. Wilderness is the arena for evolution, and there must be enough of it for natural forces to have free rein."17
He also says:
"...it boils down to the question of whether private property (and those dollars or jobs the property represents) or natural ecosystems are more valuable. Although most people in this country (myself included) respect the concept of private property, life - the biological diversity of this planet - is far more important."18
Foreman's dream of massive wilderness in America is not a private fantasy. Bill Devall says, in Deep Ecology, "The entire continent of Antarctica should be zoned as wilderness. In the United States, tens of millions of acres should be zoned wilderness with rigid restrictions on industrial developments."19