Tom DeWeese, an American rightwing activist who heads up the American Policy Center, was one of the earliest critics of the agreement, and has remained consistent in his claim that sustainable development is a “utopian, socialist nightmare”.
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On the fringes of the right, a benign agreement encouraging social and environmental stewardship became a disguised attempt to impose global communism on free citizens. The main thrust of most of those conspiracy theories echoes Roberts’s remarks to the Senate: Agenda 21 is in fact a UN plan to deprive nations of their sovereignty, and individuals of their property rights. Nevertheless, almost as soon as it was inked, Agenda 21 became the focus of conspiracy thinking, which at first mostly came from the far right. It has no legal force and is not intended to be implemented in a top-down way. It’s not a treaty, does not override national sovereignty and does not allow the UN to dictate what governments do.
It also promoted local participation – many cities and local authorities around the world have signed up to ICLEI – also known as Local Governments for Sustainability – which encourages their participation in implementing Agenda 21 initiatives. Its aim was to promote a vision of sustainable development by combatting poverty, disease and overpopulation fostering conservation, atmospheric protection, pollution controls and biodiversity and by establishing a greater role in all of this for non-state actors like women’s groups, young people, NGOs and business. What is he talking about? In reality, the Rio Declaration is an entirely nonbinding and voluntary agreement which 178 countries entered into at the Rio Earth Summit almost a quarter of a century ago. For these and other reasons, Roberts wants Australia to leave the UN.
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