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Soviet Influence
The UN's Earth Charter, a "people's treaty" scheduled to be submitted to the General Assembly in 2002, was created under the direction of former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev & Canadian industrialist Maurice Strong, who was secretary-general of the 1992 UN "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Earth Summit produced Agenda 21, a mammoth, detailed blueprint for "sustainable development" - meaning a global eco-socialist regime controlled by the UN. At the Millennium Forum, Stephen C. Rockefeller, a member of the Earth Charter Commission & chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (the tax-exempt foundation that funds much of the radical environmental movement), described the Earth Charter as "an attempt to formulate an integrated legal framework for all sustainable development & environmental law." The Earth Charter is "a declaration of interdependence & responsibility, [&] a universal code of conduct", according to Rockefeller.
The Charter is a "soft law" document, continued Rockefeller, a "statement of values" that will undergird the global eco-regime. As such it is a companion to a "hard law" treaty, a proposed "New Covenant" for management of the global biosphere - which encompasses everything on earth - which was created by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources (IUCN) in 1995 & awaits approval by the UN.
The text of the Earth Charter asserts that "we are one human family & one Earth community with a common destiny," & must therefore create "a global partnership to care for Earth", which will be defined by "an international legally binding instrument on environment & development" - that is, the IUCN's "New Covenant". Significantly, the Charter refers to the human population as merely part of "the greater community of life" & enjoins "humility regarding the human place in nature". In his remarks at the Millennium Forum, Rockefeller pointed out that the Charter is "the first international document to affirm that individual living creatures - animals, plants, & micro-organisms - are worthy of moral consideration … quite apart from their value to human beings," & he predicted that "there are going to be very difficult decisions that have to be made when the rights of human beings clash with the obligations human beings have to other living beings - species, but also individual living creatures."
In 1994, Mikhail Gorbachev predicted that the Earth Charter would be "a kind of Ten Commandments for the environment, something that no one would be allowed to violate". Gorbachev & the other drafters of that vile document seek to overturn the created order as described in Genesis, in which humanity was a separate, special creation of God, entrusted with stewardship over the lesser orders of life. In place of this biblical worldview, the Earth Charter would install a variety of pagan pantheism in which humanity is part of a democratic biosphere administered by the UN's priesthood of Gaia.
Rockefeller explicitly acknowledged that the Earth Charter is the distillate of a pantheist worldview. He confided to his audience at the Millennium Forum that he was inspired to participate in drafting the charter by a July 4, 1994 address by former Czech President Vaclav Havel describing the need for humanity to understand that "our destiny is not dependent merely on what we do for ourselves, but also for what we do for Gaia...." According to Havel, "we are not here alone for ourselves alone, but we are an integral part of higher, mysterious entities against whom it is not advisable to blaspheme." Havel's gauzy pantheism, recalled Rockefeller, was enthusiastically "seconded by President Gorbachev," & it was decided to encapsulate that "spiritual vision in an Earth Charter". "Unless human beings take seriously their responsibility to the community of life - & not just for it - we [will] not make the major changes in our life that must be made in order to protect the planet," explained Rockefeller.
The Earth Charter thus offers old Marxist proposals in a new pantheist setting. The document demands the promotion of "social & economic justice," including "the equitable distribution of wealth within nations & among nations". It commands human beings everywhere to "affirm that with increased freedom, knowledge, & power comes increased responsibility to promote the common good" - the time-dishonored totalitarian formula through which "freedom" is defined as enslavement to the collective. Most ominously, it commands that subjects of the UN's would-be global regime "adopt patterns of production, consumption, & reproduction that safeguard Earth's regenerative capacities, human rights, & community well-being." This provision, which Rockefeller called "the big principle on sustainable development," is nothing less than a mandate for state intervention in, & regulation of, all human activities, including childbearing & family life. Once again, the purpose of the "soft law" Earth Charter is to prepare the way for a binding "New Covenant", which the UN would enforce as global law.
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sKally:
If man was supposedly created in gods image, then.....holy krap...we're all doomed.-sKallyWagger