The New York Times 02/02/12
“Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot”
Leslie Kaufman & Kate Zernike
Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are rallying against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property right and her citizens toward cities.
They are showing up at planning meeting to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances – efforts they equate to the big-government blueprint against individual rights.
The protests date to 1992 when the United Nations passed a sweeping but nonbinding too-plus-page resolution called Agenda 21 that was designed to encourage nations to use fewer resources and conserve open land by steering development to already dense areas.
The Republican National Committee resolution passed without fanfare on Jan 13, declared, “The United Nations Agenda 21 plan of radical so-called ‘sustainable development’ vies the American way of life of private property ownership single family homes, private car ownership individual travel choice, and privately owned farms: all as destructive to the environment.”
Common Sense Review
A few years ago, my husband’s friend (who is an anti-government, weather machine, one world nation kind of person) talked about Agenda 21 and I thought just another crack pot theory… How wrong could I have been?
Here in Grand Rapids Michigan, our planning dept director pushes “Complete Street”, “Green Master Plan” and currently spending $600,000 on consultants on taking an existing main thoroughfare and turning it into an walking market where part of the plan is to remove traffic light to lower emissions..
It makes me want to move to the country…
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