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- . �� n W" Sustainabte Development — A Brief Analysis Public Policy throughout America is implementing the global political-economic program referred to as Sustainable Development. Most Americans do not know or understand the integrated policy and philosophy of Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development is the Action plan bein; used across America and around the world to t!n<lrrst a�►d i��; (mplemeM the United Nations Agenda 21 program. Although the movement's roots are much tiusta in<iblc older, the United Nations, at its 1992 Earth Summk held in Rio de Janeiro, publicly launched the �� `�" �� global movement known as Agenda 21. The Secretary General of that'Earth Summit - A��'�n:� Zl - Conference,' Maurice St�ong addressed the gathering and said the following: "...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the afflue�t middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban � ��:: � housing are not sustainable." ' ��, ; ��': ,� �,� � �� „ 178 nations were signatories to the 288 page Agenda 21. President George H. W. Bush signed �..;, ;, , ;,, on behalf of the United States. Since Agenda 21 was "soft lavi/' and not a treaty, Congress had ', no role to perForm. Instead, the cabinet agencies of the Executive branch of government were charged with implementing i this'global to local' program.. In 1993, PresideM Bill Clinton established, by executive order, the PresidenYs Council on Sustainable SusWinable Development. Since Clinton's order, every cabinet agency fias undertaken its Devetop�tet�t role in advancing Agenda 21/Sustainable Development policy in the US Globa! fo Locaf Ac�rot� Ptarfs In summary, Sustainable Development seeks: • The step by step abolition of private property, primarily through the I �� implementation of the Wildlands Project and Smart Growth. • Education of youth to prepare them for globai cRizenship. • Control and uRimate reduction of human population. Sustainable Developers rally around the concepts within their "th�ee E's" symbol. The three E's are Equity, Economy and Environment. • Equity rrieaos to restructure human nature and to enforce that restrudure by shifting our system of justice from one that adheres to the principle of equal justice and unallenable rights to one that implemerKs the concept of "soctal justice." • Economy means shifting from free er�terprlse to "public-prhrate pannerships." It ako means establishment of a globsl economy where goods "freel�' cross national borders in order to redlstribute financial, natural and human resources in order to equalize the income distsibution within and between nations. • Environment means giving plants, animals and even inanimate objects status equal to or even greater than the rights of human beings.