The Green Agenda

[Scott & Lai 12]

http://www.green-agenda.com/index.html

There are many more quotes on the website, as well as links to the sources

We should all want to be wise and careful stewards of the beautiful planet we call home. But most of us realise that humans in general are not being good stewards. We are wasteful with our natural resources and have reduced biodiversity. Therefore, when we read about groups and organisations calling for a 'green revolution' and a new relationship between humanity and nature it is easy to agree with their ideas.

However, certain aspects of the modern green movement that is permeating every segment of our society are not about protecting the environment. You don’t have to dig very deep to discover the true beliefs of the influential leaders who are using genuine concerns about the environment to promote an agenda of fear and control. Please carefully consider the implications of the opinions that they so openly and freely express:

"The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through

changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."

- Club of Rome,

premier environmental think-tank, consultants to the United Nations

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"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."

- Prof. Stephen Schneider,

Stanford Professor of Climatology,

lead author of many IPCC reports

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"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of

economic and environmental policy."

- Timothy Wirth,

President of the UN Foundation

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"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world."

- Christine Stewart,

former Canadian Minister of the Environment

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“The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations on the data. We're basing them on the climate models.”- Prof. Chris Folland,

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

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“The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.”

- Dr David Frame,

climate modeler, Oxford University

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"I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."

- Al Gore,

Climate Change activist

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"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."- Paul Watson,

co-founder of Greenpeace

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"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen."

- Sir John Houghton,

first chairman of IPCC

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"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."- emeritus professor Daniel Botkin

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"The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level."

- Al Gore,

Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

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"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis..."

- David Rockefeller,

Club of Rome executive member

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"Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making."

- Al Gore,

An Inconvenient Truth

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"We are getting close to catastrophic tipping points, despite the fact that most people barely notice the warming yet."

- Dr James Hansen,

NASA researcher

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"By the end of this century climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic."

- Sir James Lovelock,

Revenge of Gaia

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"Climate Change will result in a catastrophic global sea level rise of seven meters. That's bye-bye most of Bangladesh, Netherlands, Florida and would make London the new Atlantis."

- Greenpeace International

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"The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation."

- UN Commission on Global Governance report

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"Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely.

Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time."

- Club of Rome,

The First Global Revolution

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"The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government."

- Mikhail Gorbachev,

State of the World Forum

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"I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community."

- Mikhail Gorbachev,

co-author of The Earth Charter

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"In my view, after fifty years of service in the United Nations system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways."

- Dr Robert Muller,

UN Assistant Secretary General,

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"Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance as a means of solving otherwise unmanageable crises."

- Lester Brown,

WorldWatch Institute

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"Regionalism must precede globalism. We foresee a seamless system of governance from local communities, individual states, regional unions

and up through to the United Nations itself."

- UN Commission on Global Governance

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"We require a central organizing principle - one agreed to voluntarily. Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations,

rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary."

- Al Gore,

Earth in the Balance

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"Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift

will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level."

- UN Agenda 21

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"The current course of development is thus clearly unsustainable. Current problems cannot be solved by piecemeal measures. More of the same is not enough. Radical change from the current trajectory is not an option, but an absolute necessity. Fundamental economic, social and cultural changes that address the root causes of poverty and environmental degradation are required and they are required now."

– from the Earth Charter website

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"The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope."

- David Brower,

founder of Friends of the Earth

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"If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it is possible under capitalism" - Judi Bari,

principal organiser of Earth First!

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"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"- Maurice Strong,

founder of the UN Environment Programme

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"A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation."- Paul Ehrlich,

Professor of Population Studies

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"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are."

- Michael Oppenheimer,

Environmental Defense Fund

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"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control."- Professor Maurice King

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"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of presently settled land."

- David Foreman,

co-founder of Earth First!

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"Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it."

- Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

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"The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet."- Jeremy Rifkin,

Greenhouse Crisis Foundation

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"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."- Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

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"Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature."

- Al Gore,

Earth in the Balance

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"The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil."

– Sir James Lovelock,

BBC Interview

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"My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world." -Dave Foreman,

co-founder of Earth First!

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"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable."

- Maurice Strong,

Rio Earth Summit

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"Mankind is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish and unethical animal on the earth."

- Michael Fox,

vice-president of The Humane Society

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"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs."

- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

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"Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor."

- Sir James Lovelock,

Healing Gaia

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"The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man."- Club of Rome,

Mankind at the Turning Point

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"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions.''

- Prof Paul Ehrlich,

The Population Bomb

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"I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population."

- Prince Philip,

preface of Down to Earth

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"A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."

- United Nations,

Global Biodiversity Assessment

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"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."- Ted Turner,

founder of CNN and major UN donor

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"... the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion."- Club of Rome,

Goals for Mankind

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"One America burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say. In order to stabilize world population,we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it."

- Jacques Cousteau,

UNESCO Courier

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"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."

- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,

patron of the World Wildlife Fund

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"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

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"The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing."- Christopher Manes, Earth First!

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“The extinction of ** Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.”- Ingrid Newkirk,

former President of PETA

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"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."- David Brower,

first Executive Director of the Sierra Club

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"The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human species has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution.... Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature."

- Rene Dubos,

board member, Planetary Citizens

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"Each element, plant, insect, fish and animal represents a certain aspect of Gaia's - and our - being. In a way, we are Gaia's intelligence and awareness - currently lost in self-destructive madness. We must acknowledge, respect and love her for being the Mother she is to us or we deny our very selves. Nurture the Mother as she nurtures us."

- Prof. Michael J. Cohen,

Ecopsychologist

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"The spirit of our planet is stirring! The Consciousness of Goddess Earth is now rising against all odds, in spite of millennia of suppression,

repression and oppression inflicted on Her by a hubristic and misguided humanity. The Earth is a living entity, a biological organism with psychic and spiritual dimensions. With the expansion of the patriarchal religions that focused on a male God majestically stationed in Heaven ruling over the Earth and the Universe, the memory of our planet's innate Divinity was repressed and banished into the collective unconscious of humanity."

- Envision Earth

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"Still more important is the implication that the evolution of ** sapiens, with his technological inventiveness and his increasingly subtle communications network, has vastly increased Gaia's range of perception. She is now through us awake and aware of herself. She has seen the reflection of her fair face through the eyes of astronauts and the television cameras of orbiting spacecraft.

Our sensations of wonder and pleasure, our capacity for conscious thought and speculation, our restless curiosity and drive are hers to share. This new interrelationship of Gaia with man is by no means fully established; we are not yet a truly collective species, corralled and tamed as an integral part of the biosphere, as we are as individual creatures. It may be that the destiny of mankind is to become tamed, so that the fierce, destructive, and greedy forces of tribalism and nationalism are fused into a compulsive urge to belong to the commonwealth of all creatures which constitutes Gaia."

– Sir James Lovelock,

Gaia: A New Look At Life

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"Nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals."

- Mikhail Gorbachev,

Green Cross International

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"The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization.... The last vestige of organized goddess worship

was eliminated by Christianity."

- Al Gore,

Earth in the Balance

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"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition."- Peter Singer, founder of Animal Rights

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"The earth is not dead matter. She is alive. Now begin to speak to the earth as you walk. You can speak out loud, or just talk to her in your mind.

Send your love into her with your exhalation. Feel your heart touching upon the heart of the planet. Say to her whatever words come to you: Mother Earth, I love you. Mother Earth, I bless you. May you be healed. May all your creatures be happy. Peace to you, Mother Earth. On behalf of the human race, I ask forgiveness for having injured you. Forgive us, Mother Earth"

- US Student Textbook,

"Prayer to the Earth"

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/m...ed-as-religion/

By David R. Sands THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Environmentalism, says Czech President Vaclav Klaus, is the new communism, a system of elite command-and-control that kills prosperity and should similarly be condemned to the ash heap of history.

The provocative Mr. Klaus, an economist by training and former prime minister, said in an interview that today's global warming activists are the direct descendants of the old Marxists who trampled on individual freedoms and undermined free markets in pursuit of a greater good.

"I understand that global warming is a religion conceived to suppress human freedom," he told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. "It is used to justify an enormous scope for government intervention vis-a-vis the markets and personal freedom."

[Pooky 3,853]

OK, now I'm going to have difficulty sleeping. There are some complete nutjobs out there.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

The truth hurts the left.

Edited November 11, 2009 by John Galt

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Scott,

You've got to rise above the heresay and conspiracy theory rhetoric and listen to the science of it. The science is solid and real.

[Danno 1,228]

Scott,

You've got to rise above the heresay and conspiracy theory rhetoric and listen to the science of it. The science is solid and real.

Just wondering Steven, if the Global temp trends continue to grow cooler or stay the same over the next decade.... will you finally abandon the GW ship?

What would it take?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I don't know about the Green Agenda, but its better than the Yeller Agenda.

Edited November 11, 2009 by Gene Hunt

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Scott,

You've got to rise above the heresay and conspiracy theory rhetoric and listen to the science of it. The science is solid and real.

Just wondering Steven, if the Global temp trends continue to grow cooler or stay the same over the next decade.... will you finally abandon the GW ship?

What would it take?

It's simple for me, Danno. I let the experts be the experts. When the bodies of science in particular field of study say Global Warming is real, I accept their conclusions for face value.

So you should ask yourself that same question...what will it take for you to finally accept the bodies of science and their consensus on Climate Change?

World Meteorological Organization

The American Meteorological Society

American Geophysical Union

American Association for the Advancement of Science

...all have issued statements in recent years concluding that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling (8). The drafting of such reports and statements involves many opportunities for comment, criticism, and revision, and it is not likely that they would diverge greatly from the opinions of the societies' members. Nevertheless, they might downplay legitimate dissenting opinions. That hypothesis was tested by analyzing 928 abstracts, published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and listed in the ISI database with the keywords "climate change" (9).

The 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. Of all the papers, 75% fell into the first three categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change. Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

Edited November 11, 2009 by Galt's gallstones