The Earth Charter - Good or Bad?
The United Nations held an "Earth Summit" in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. The result of this international conference was a program labeled "Agenda 21." Agenda 21 is the blueprint for a "sustainable earth." The plan is to sustain the environment and the economy of the earth in the twenty-first century via international treaties, protocols and standards. Critics, however, view Agenda 21 (and its subsidiary initiatives, such as the Earth Charter) as a blueprint for global government.
In September 2002, the United Nations will assemble national leaders and delegates, various experts and sundry Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Johannesburg South Africa for the World Summit for Sustainable Development-- a 10 year review of progress made toward implementing Agenda 21. Several preparatory committee meetings have already been held to define the terms of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD).
The purpose of the WSSD is to move the "global community" closer to an interlocked governmental control over the earth. The rationale offered to the nations for this global control is a possible environmental meltdown and the need to curtail the "hordes of people who pollute" the earth.
Each United Nations conference since the U.N.'s under-reported Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972, has been shaped by a political plan to achieve a "world community." This political impetus toward global hegemony in turn calls on a supposed crisis of population, environment, housing, women, children or poverty. Thus we had the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo Egypt, in 1994; the Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995; Habitat, Istanbul Turkey, 1996; the World Summit for Children scheduled for 2002.
In some manner each of these conferences advances global control over sovereign nations and their people. A "safe" environment is touted as a human right. Therefore, if human rights must be insured for all people, a global power must be empowered to allocate natural resources and to protect the environment of the entire earth. The U.N. forms new agencies to manage these initiatives, such as the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
The past two decades have seen the subtle, then militant insistence on a religious duty to revere the earth. Campaigns such as "Earth First!" or "Love you Mother (Earth)" led to the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. Many denominations have adopted this program (and others) that elevates the earth to a deity. The New Age mantra insists that the earth has a spirit and that each organism, plant or animal, is spiritually equivalent to humans. The earth is worshipped as a goddess. This is pantheism-a religious system that worships the creation, rather than the Creator.
As the WSSD approaches, massive educational programs, public relations campaigns and religious hype will be employed to persuade the people of the world that an environmental crisis threatens our lives. Unless we consent to global control of resources, production and population, we face environmental peril, global chaos and even war as precious land and water are lost to pollution.
The primary vehicle used to promote the "global commons" is the Earth Charter. This charter is a brainchild of Mikhail Gorbachev and Canadian financier, Maurice Strong. Both are advocates of global governance. Gorbachev is the founder of Green Cross International and Strong is the founder and director of the Earth Council. Both organizations promote socialist political structures for the governance of the entire globe.
The Earth Charter is promoted in schools and churches as well as in local communities as an opportunity to "save the earth." At the same time that the Earth Charter proponents worry about unproved claims of global warming or "holes" in the ozone layer, the specter of AIDS epidemics engulf whole continents. Yet, the U.N. and other affiliated agencies promote sexual immorality that causes AIDS by distributing billions of dollars worth of condoms and contraceptives each year-thus financing the actual degradation of the earth by fostering the conditions that spread AIDS! A cursory investigation of the programs and claims of the Earth Charter agents quickly uncovers their true agenda: Control of the people of the world under the guise of controlling the environment.
Christians agree that man is set over the earth as God's steward, and as such man is given dominion over the earth. This is not a license to ravage the earth. We must care for God's creation, while using it for the benefit of that singular creation that is made in the image of God-Man.
The battle before us is: Whose worldview will prevail? The utilitarian, global government worldview would employ population control, abortion, and control of all means of production and distribution of goods and control of education in order to form "global citizens." In short, a Brave New World. This worldview would banish a religious teaching that protects the dignity of human life at all its stages; the unborn, the handicapped, the elderly.
Pope John Paul II addressed some of the concerns surrounding the environment in his remarks given at the 1990 World Day of Peace. The pope firmly anchored all efforts to protect the environment in Revelation. He said: "The fact that many challenges facing the world today are interdependent confirms the need for carefully coordinated solutions based on a morally coherent world view. For Christians, such a world view is grounded in religious convictions drawn from Revelation."(Message)
The Holy Father points out that Christians have a moral obligation to preserve and protect the environment and to share the bounty of the earth. Yet he is careful to draw the attention of Christians to the worldview that insures freedom and dignity for the human person.
The United Nations and other international organizations in the forefront of the sustainable development programs and the Earth Charter are deaf to the Holy Father's admonition to keep Man as the centerpiece of creation. The threat to Christian practice from many of the U.N. programs is grave. Even now some UN relief agencies refuse doctors and medical personnel the right to abide by their conscience on matters of abortion and contraception. Catholic countries are forced to accept contraception and abortion as a part of international development aid packages. Population control in some form is a feature of all U.N. programs for the environment.
The United Nations held an "Earth Summit" in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. The result of this international conference was a program labeled "Agenda 21." Agenda 21 is the blueprint for a "sustainable earth." The plan is to sustain the environment and the economy of the earth in the twenty-first century via international treaties, protocols and standards. Critics, however, view Agenda 21 (and its subsidiary initiatives, such as the Earth Charter) as a blueprint for global government.
In September 2002, the United Nations will assemble national leaders and delegates, various experts and sundry Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Johannesburg South Africa for the World Summit for Sustainable Development-- a 10 year review of progress made toward implementing Agenda 21. Several preparatory committee meetings have already been held to define the terms of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD).
The purpose of the WSSD is to move the "global community" closer to an interlocked governmental control over the earth. The rationale offered to the nations for this global control is a possible environmental meltdown and the need to curtail the "hordes of people who pollute" the earth.
Each United Nations conference since the U.N.'s under-reported Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972, has been shaped by a political plan to achieve a "world community." This political impetus toward global hegemony in turn calls on a supposed crisis of population, environment, housing, women, children or poverty. Thus we had the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo Egypt, in 1994; the Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995; Habitat, Istanbul Turkey, 1996; the World Summit for Children scheduled for 2002.
In some manner each of these conferences advances global control over sovereign nations and their people. A "safe" environment is touted as a human right. Therefore, if human rights must be insured for all people, a global power must be empowered to allocate natural resources and to protect the environment of the entire earth. The U.N. forms new agencies to manage these initiatives, such as the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
The past two decades have seen the subtle, then militant insistence on a religious duty to revere the earth. Campaigns such as "Earth First!" or "Love you Mother (Earth)" led to the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. Many denominations have adopted this program (and others) that elevates the earth to a deity. The New Age mantra insists that the earth has a spirit and that each organism, plant or animal, is spiritually equivalent to humans. The earth is worshipped as a goddess. This is pantheism-a religious system that worships the creation, rather than the Creator.
As the WSSD approaches, massive educational programs, public relations campaigns and religious hype will be employed to persuade the people of the world that an environmental crisis threatens our lives. Unless we consent to global control of resources, production and population, we face environmental peril, global chaos and even war as precious land and water are lost to pollution.
The primary vehicle used to promote the "global commons" is the Earth Charter. This charter is a brainchild of Mikhail Gorbachev and Canadian financier, Maurice Strong. Both are advocates of global governance. Gorbachev is the founder of Green Cross International and Strong is the founder and director of the Earth Council. Both organizations promote socialist political structures for the governance of the entire globe.
The Earth Charter is promoted in schools and churches as well as in local communities as an opportunity to "save the earth." At the same time that the Earth Charter proponents worry about unproved claims of global warming or "holes" in the ozone layer, the specter of AIDS epidemics engulf whole continents. Yet, the U.N. and other affiliated agencies promote sexual immorality that causes AIDS by distributing billions of dollars worth of condoms and contraceptives each year-thus financing the actual degradation of the earth by fostering the conditions that spread AIDS! A cursory investigation of the programs and claims of the Earth Charter agents quickly uncovers their true agenda: Control of the people of the world under the guise of controlling the environment.
Christians agree that man is set over the earth as God's steward, and as such man is given dominion over the earth. This is not a license to ravage the earth. We must care for God's creation, while using it for the benefit of that singular creation that is made in the image of God-Man.
The battle before us is: Whose worldview will prevail? The utilitarian, global government worldview would employ population control, abortion, and control of all means of production and distribution of goods and control of education in order to form "global citizens." In short, a Brave New World. This worldview would banish a religious teaching that protects the dignity of human life at all its stages; the unborn, the handicapped, the elderly.
Pope John Paul II addressed some of the concerns surrounding the environment in his remarks given at the 1990 World Day of Peace. The pope firmly anchored all efforts to protect the environment in Revelation. He said: "The fact that many challenges facing the world today are interdependent confirms the need for carefully coordinated solutions based on a morally coherent world view. For Christians, such a world view is grounded in religious convictions drawn from Revelation."(Message)
The Holy Father points out that Christians have a moral obligation to preserve and protect the environment and to share the bounty of the earth. Yet he is careful to draw the attention of Christians to the worldview that insures freedom and dignity for the human person.
The United Nations and other international organizations in the forefront of the sustainable development programs and the Earth Charter are deaf to the Holy Father's admonition to keep Man as the centerpiece of creation. The threat to Christian practice from many of the U.N. programs is grave. Even now some UN relief agencies refuse doctors and medical personnel the right to abide by their conscience on matters of abortion and contraception. Catholic countries are forced to accept contraception and abortion as a part of international development aid packages. Population control in some form is a feature of all U.N. programs for the environment.
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