U.N. Agenda 21 Commentary

Title	Type	Summary	Source
The Green Matrix, Weird Science - Think Globally	Article	"The green matrix is the network of connections in a worldwide political and economic agenda involving science in service to that agenda. It includes dabs of Eastern mysticism, Hegel and Marx and venture capitalism, as well as various world elite playing masters of the universe. "Their coda is that the ends justify the means - think globally, act locally..."	Eco-logic
Sustainable Communities: A look at a model - Santa Cruz, California	Article	"Sustainable Development is... the process by which societies are being reorganized around the central principle of protecting the environment -- as called for by Al Gore in his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance."	Henry Lamb, Sovereignty International
The Cost of Sustainable Development	Article	A briefing paper that discusses the threat Agenda 21 poses to the US Constitution.	Henry Lamb, Sovereignty International

Fatally Flawed	Article	"The concept of sustainable development is constructed on the foundational belief that government must manage the affairs of its citizens in order to balance the three-legged stool of sustainable development: (1) environmental protection, (2) economic development, and (3) social equity... The fatal flaw in the concept of sustainable development is the absence of the principles of freedom."	Henry Lamb, Environmental Conservation Organization in WorldNet Daily.com
Federal land-use planning in the works?	Article	A property rights group rallies opposition to Clinton-era project. How some groups are working to oppose NGO plans to federalize local and state land use control, trample private property rights, discriminate against minority business owners, and impede economic development.	Sarah Foster, WorldNetDaily.com
Greens force strategic mine out of business	Article	Communist China now principle source of strategic minerals after US government and NGOs shut down mining operations at gun point.	Sierra Times
How "Smart Growth" Intensifies Traffic Congestion and Air Pollution	Article	"It would seem that the best approach to solving the problem would be to take actions to disperse traffic and to make it move faster... But just the opposite strategies have come into vogue. Advocates of so-called 'smart growth' policies believe that traffic congestion and air pollution can be improved by forcing more people and more cars into smaller areas."	Wendell Cox, Senior Fellow in Urban Policy The Independence Institute
How the Feds and Eco-Elitists Take Private Land for Fun and Profit	Article	"If one looks a little closer, one might just find that a new human predator has moved into occupy the now-liberated land. They are environmentalists, happily homesteading on once-private property. After being liberated by government goons, the property is supposed to be off-limits to development or private use. But those with power are free to break the rules. Who would enforce them?"	Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center
Sustainable Development is Not Sustainable	Article	"The fatal flaw in the concept of sustainable development is the absence of the principles of freedom."	Henry Lamb, Sovereignty International
Beware of Regional Planning	Article	"There are movements in various localities across the country that are leading us away from our representative form of local government"	Ray Simmons, Citizen Review Online
Globalizing Mining America	Article	"The (Clinton) administration designated millions of acres of federal land off-limits to multiple uses such as mining---and seems to be attempting to lock up public land --- all without consulting Congress or the public. The administration seems to be conforming U.S. environmental policy to UN Strategies." Also contains links to all the necessary documents to track Agenda 21 and related issues.	Dr. Michael S. Coffman "Mining Voice Magazine."
The Wildlands Project	Resource Page	Resources for understanding and tracking the progress of a grandiose attempt to lock up at least one-half the surface area of North America into a vast wilderness preserve. Cited by the UNs Global Biodiversity Assessment as the template for implementing the Convention on Biodiversity, Wildlands is the brainchild of a convicted domestic terrorist.	North Western Research Institute