Thursday, May 14, 2015

Global Marxists Push for UN Takeover

In September, The UN Launches A Major Sustainable Development Agenda For The Entire Planet, Posted on May 13, 2015 Written by Michael Snyder, theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The UN plans to launch a brand new plan for man­ag­ing the entire globe at the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Sum­mit that it will be host­ing from Sep­tem­ber 25th to Sep­tem­ber 27th.  Some of the biggest names on the planet, includ­ing Pope Fran­cis, will be speak­ing at this sum­mit.  This new sus­tain­able agenda focuses on cli­mate change of course, but it also specif­i­cally addresses top­ics such as eco­nom­ics, agri­cul­ture, edu­ca­tion and gen­der equal­ity.  For those wish­ing to expand the scope of “global gov­er­nance”, sus­tain­able devel­op­ment is the per­fect umbrella because just about all human activ­ity affects the envi­ron­ment in some way.  The phrase “for the good of the planet” can be used as an excuse to micro­man­age vir­tu­ally every aspect of our lives.  So for those that are con­cerned about the grow­ing power of the United Nations, this sum­mit in Sep­tem­ber is some­thing to keep an eye on.  Never before have I seen such an effort to pro­mote a UN sum­mit on the envi­ron­ment, and this new sus­tain­able devel­op­ment agenda is lit­er­ally a frame­work for man­ag­ing the entire globe.
If you are not famil­iar with this new sus­tain­able devel­op­ment agenda, the fol­low­ing is what the offi­cial United Nations web­site says about it…
The United Nations is now in the process of defin­ing Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals as part a new sus­tain­able devel­op­ment agenda that must fin­ish the job and leave no one behind. This agenda, to be launched at the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Sum­mit in Sep­tem­ber 2015, is cur­rently being dis­cussed at the UN Gen­eral Assem­bly, where Mem­ber States and civil soci­ety are mak­ing con­tri­bu­tions to the agenda.
The process of arriv­ing at the post 2015 devel­op­ment agenda is Mem­ber State-led with broad par­tic­i­pa­tion from Major Groups and other civil soci­ety stake­hold­ers. There have been numer­ous inputs to the agenda, notably a set of Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals pro­posed by an open work­ing group of the Gen­eral Assem­bly, the report of an inter­gov­ern­men­tal com­mit­tee of experts on sus­tain­able devel­op­ment financ­ing, Gen­eral Assem­bly dia­logues on tech­nol­ogy facil­i­ta­tion and many others.
Posted below are the 17 sus­tain­able devel­op­ment goals that are being pro­posed so far.  Some of them seem quite rea­son­able.  After all, who wouldn’t want to “end poverty”.  But as you go down this list, you soon come to real­ize that just about every­thing is involved in some way.  In other words, this truly is a tem­plate for rad­i­cally expanded “global gov­er­nance”.  Once again, this was taken directly from the offi­cial UN website…
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food secu­rity and improved nutri­tion, and pro­mote sus­tain­able agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and pro­mote well­be­ing for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclu­sive and equi­table qual­ity edu­ca­tion and pro­mote life­long learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for all
5. Achieve gen­der equal­ity and empower all women and girls
6. Ensure avail­abil­ity and sus­tain­able man­age­ment of water and san­i­ta­tion for all
7. Ensure access to afford­able, reli­able, sus­tain­able and mod­ern energy for all
8. Pro­mote sus­tained, inclu­sive and sus­tain­able eco­nomic growth, full and pro­duc­tive employ­ment, and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infra­struc­ture, pro­mote inclu­sive and sus­tain­able indus­tri­al­i­za­tion, and fos­ter innovation
10. Reduce inequal­ity within and among countries
11. Make cities and human set­tle­ments inclu­sive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12. Ensure sus­tain­able con­sump­tion and pro­duc­tion patterns
13. Take urgent action to com­bat cli­mate change and its impacts (tak­ing note of agree­ments made by the UNFCCC forum)
14. Con­serve and sus­tain­ably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sus­tain­able development
15. Pro­tect, restore and pro­mote sus­tain­able use of ter­res­trial ecosys­tems, sus­tain­ably man­age forests, com­bat deser­ti­fi­ca­tion and halt and reverse land degra­da­tion, and halt bio­di­ver­sity loss
16. Pro­mote peace­ful and inclu­sive soci­eties for sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, pro­vide access to jus­tice for all and build effec­tive, account­able and inclu­sive insti­tu­tions at all levels
17. Strengthen the means of imple­men­ta­tion and revi­talize the global part­ner­ship for sus­tain­able development
As you can see, this list goes far beyond “sav­ing the envi­ron­ment” or “fight­ing cli­mate change”. It truly cov­ers just about every realm of human activity.
Another thing that makes this new sus­tain­able devel­op­ment agenda dif­fer­ent is the unprece­dented sup­port that it is get­ting from the Vat­i­can and from Pope Fran­cis himself.
In fact, Pope Fran­cis is actu­ally going to travel to the UN and give an address to kick off the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Sum­mit on Sep­tem­ber 25th…
His Holi­ness Pope Fran­cis will visit the UN on 25 Sep­tem­ber 2015, and give an address to the UN Gen­eral Assem­bly imme­di­ately ahead of the offi­cial open­ing of the UN Sum­mit for the adop­tion of the post-2015 devel­op­ment agenda.
This Pope has been very open about his belief that cli­mate change is one of the great­est dan­gers cur­rently fac­ing our world.  Just a cou­ple of weeks ago, he actu­ally brought UN Sec­re­tary Gen­eral Ban Ki-moon to the Vat­i­can to speak about cli­mate change and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment.  Here is a sum­mary of what happened…
On 28 April, the Secretary-General met with His Holi­ness Pope Fran­cis at the Vat­i­can and later addressed senior reli­gious lead­ers, along with the Pres­i­dents of Italy and Ecuador, Nobel lau­re­ates and lead­ing sci­en­tists on cli­mate change and sus­tain­able development.
Amidst an unusu­ally heavy rain­storm in Rome, par­tic­i­pants at the his­toric meet­ing gath­ered within the ancient Vat­i­can com­pound to dis­cuss what the Secretary-General has called the “defin­ing chal­lenge of our time.”
The mere fact that a meet­ing took place between the reli­gious and sci­en­tific com­mu­ni­ties on cli­mate change was itself news­wor­thy. That it took place at the Vat­i­can, was hosted by the Pon­tif­i­cal Acad­emy of Sci­ences, and fea­tured the Secretary-General as the keynote speaker was all the more striking.
In addi­tion, Pope Fran­cis is sched­uled to release a major encycli­cal this sum­mer which will be pri­mar­ily focused on the envi­ron­ment and cli­mate change.  The fol­low­ing comes from the New York Times…
The much-anticipated envi­ron­men­tal encycli­cal that Pope Fran­cis plans to issue this sum­mer is already being trans­lated into the world’s major lan­guages from the Latin final draft, so there’s no more tweak­ing to be done, sev­eral peo­ple close to the process have told me in recent weeks.
I think that we can get a good idea of the kind of lan­guage that we will see in this encycli­cal from another Vat­i­can doc­u­ment which was recently released.  It is enti­tled “Cli­mate Change and The Com­mon Good”, and it was pro­duced by the Pon­tif­i­cal Acad­emy of Sci­ences and the Pon­tif­i­cal Acad­emy of Social Sci­ences.  The fol­low­ing is a brief excerpt…
Unsus­tain­able con­sump­tion cou­pled with a record human pop­u­la­tion and the uses of inap­pro­pri­ate tech­nolo­gies are causally linked with the destruc­tion of the world’s sus­tain­abil­ity and resilience. Widen­ing inequal­i­ties of wealth and income, the world-wide dis­rup­tion of the phys­i­cal cli­mate sys­tem and the loss of mil­lions of species that sus­tain life are the gross­est man­i­fes­ta­tions of unsus­tain­abil­ity. The con­tin­ued extrac­tion of coal, oil and gas fol­low­ing the “business-as-usual mode” will soon cre­ate grave exis­ten­tial risks for the poor­est three bil­lion, and for gen­er­a­tions yet unborn. Cli­mate change result­ing largely from unsus­tain­able con­sump­tion by about 15% of the world’s pop­u­la­tion has become a dom­i­nant moral and eth­i­cal issue for soci­ety. There is still time to mit­i­gate unman­age­able cli­mate changes and repair ecosys­tem dam­ages, pro­vided we reori­ent our atti­tude toward nature and, thereby, toward our­selves. Cli­mate change is a global prob­lem whose solu­tion will depend on our step­ping beyond national affil­i­a­tions and com­ing together for the com­mon good. Such trans­for­ma­tional changes in atti­tudes would help fos­ter the nec­es­sary insti­tu­tional reforms and tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tions for pro­vid­ing the energy sources that have neg­li­gi­ble effect on global cli­mate, atmos­pheric pol­lu­tion and eco-systems, thus pro­tect­ing gen­er­a­tions yet to be born. Reli­gious insti­tu­tions can and should take the lead in bring­ing about that change in atti­tude towards Creation.
The Catholic Church, work­ing with the lead­er­ship of other reli­gions, can now take a deci­sive role by mobi­liz­ing pub­lic opin­ion and pub­lic funds to meet the energy needs of the poor­est 3 bil­lion peo­ple, thus allow­ing them to pre­pare for the chal­lenges of unavoid­able cli­mate and eco-system changes. Such a bold and human­i­tar­ian action by the world’s reli­gions act­ing in uni­son is cer­tain to cat­alyze a pub­lic debate over how we can inte­grate soci­etal choices, as pri­or­i­tized under UN’s sus­tain­able devel­op­ment goals, into sus­tain­able eco­nomic devel­op­ment path­ways for the 21st cen­tury, with pro­jected pop­u­la­tion of 10 bil­lion or more.
Under this Pope, the Vat­i­can has become much more polit­i­cal than it was before, and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment has become the Vatican’s num­ber one polit­i­cal issue.
And did you notice the lan­guage about “the world’s reli­gions act­ing in uni­son”?  Clearly, the Vat­i­can believes that it has the power to mobi­lize reli­gious lead­ers all over the planet and have them work together to achieve the “UN’s sus­tain­able devel­op­ment goals”.
I can never remem­ber a time when the United Nations and the largest reli­gious insti­tu­tion on the planet, the Catholic Church, have worked together so closely.
So what will the end result of all this be? Should we be con­cerned about this new sus­tain­able devel­op­ment agenda?

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