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By C. Grady Drago
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This article first appeared in a 1997 issue of the public policy publication the ADDRESS, published by the Lincoln Heritage Institiute. Rerunning here, today seemed proper since, no matter how ridiculed, how fallacious their data is proven, or how discredited their premise of human caused global warming the activist environmentalists continue to assert their fabricated claims. They continue to make outlandish, even childish allegations framed in scientific language, in an attempt to keep them in the forefront. With each claim, some in the media pick it up and it hangs around as if it had credibility until the research and scientific proof discrediting it can be completed. Unfortunately this takes time and during that period the pressure is applied for America to adopt the Kyoto. This treaty is nothing more than an attempt by the UN and the supporting dictatorships and socialist nations to undercut the U.S. economy, violate U.S. patent laws, and participate in revenue sharing program funded by the U.S. Organizations like those promoting this fraud should be prosecuted as extortionists. )
"Satchel Page, when asked about his secret of youth is credited with saying "don't look back, it may be gaining." Of course he was saying not to let triviality absorb your energies. Unfortunately, in America today it is risky to live by this credo and one reason is because the forces that have been at work for the past 50 years are continuing to chip away at our individual and states rights by working to centralize more and more power in Washington to empower citizen groups to implement liberal government policies and programs.
Of particular interest for this writing are our personal property rights, which have been the primary target of the environmental lobbyists and their liberal friends. Their bad science is being used in scare tactics in the name of protecting the environment from unforeseen and unproven threats. Of course as long as the threat remains far into the future, they can continue raising money and pushing for strong armed enforcement of new regulations. Fortunately, in recent years many organizations and individuals have made their concerns known and the new leadership in Congress, along with many members of the minority party, have become aware of these problems and have taken some legislative action to reverse this dangerous threat. So now, through the back door, comes the newest threat to our rights, life-styles, and economic growth.
Article VI, Section 2 of the Constitution states in part "...and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." Keep this thought.
At the 1992 Earth Summit (the U.N.'s Conference on The Environment) it wasn't global warming (ten years before it was global cooling) nor Agenda 21 that was the central focus of the liberal environmental movement, it was the approval and acceptance of the Convention on Biological Diversity - the Biodiversity Treaty. The eco-liberals were successful; however, President Bush refused to sign the treaty.
Unfortunately, at the urging of Vice President Gore President Clinton signed the treaty. To the glee of the liberal environmental lobbyists and Vice President Gore, the treaty was moving quickly through the liberal controlled Senate toward ratification. Ratification would have occurred had it not been for a handful of conservation organizations and individuals. All they did was point out the specifics of what the wonderful sounding language in the treaty actually meant - the potential to transform Western Civilization into a socialist New World Order where animals and plants had more rights than humans.
The Treaty requires humans to treat nature as sacred; targets the reduction of human population to 1-2 billion, or the reduction of standard of living to an "agrarian peasant status;" gives social/eco groups legal standing to police conformity to the treaty; assigns property rights to the U.N.'s Global Environmental Facility; and establishes a feudal communal form of social structure within "bio-regions" among other things.
The treaty is still pending before the Senate and the eco-liberal movement is alive and well. This treaty should be a focal point of public debate (which the Institute will pursue) and the American public should be told exactly what this treaty does, how it does it, and who is supporting it. If there are any questions, please contact the Institute's environmental division." u
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