YOUR FREEDOM / YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS will be run over by Marietta City Council if they have their way. Marietta City Council is poised to approve the new International Property Maintenance Code. It is not a concern to them that the IPMC is an unofficial part of the United Nations Agenda 21 for sustainable development. Clearly Agenda 21 is not a conspiracy. It’s no secret. It’s a detailed plan instituted by the closest thing to world government that has ever existed—the UN. It’s not a universally accepted plan. The 2012 GOP Platform officially rejected Agenda 21, which means that its rejection is a legitimate form of political expression. And for City Council members to try brush aside any concerns about Agenda 21 as being kooky and no more worthy of consideration than UFOs is ingenuous at best. Rather than belittling opposing political concerns, council should be open to genuine discussion about the issues. Everyone agrees that it is unreasonable to oppose sustainable development. Those who oppose Agenda 21 do not oppose sustainable development. But what is at issue is the definition of “sustainable development.” I suspect that most people think that it means that we Americans should continue doing what we already do, only do it better. Most Americans probably think that it means that we need to sustain the development we currently enjoy. But that’s not what the UN thinks. The UN’s idea of sustainable development is: equal use of the world’s resources among all living things. So, the fact that 12 percent of the world’s population that lives in North America and Western Europe accounts for 60 percent of private consumption spending, and the fact that the 33 percent living in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa accounts for only 3.2 percent, means that wealth must be more equitably redistributed, according to the UN. The UN understands this to mean that the current level of Western prosperity must fall in order to provide for less prosperous people. And this understanding of how to fix this problem is what has been rejected by the GOP and many others. The solution to this problem is not to redistribute the existing pie (resources) but to grow (develop) the pie. And there are several ways to grow or extend the available resources, including both increased efficiencies, resource expansion and new technologies. And this impacts directly upon the idea of enforced standards. Standards tend to lock in existing efficiencies, resources and technologies. And this tends to impede research and development of new efficiencies, resources and technologies because the standards monopolize the markets. In other words, the markets follow the standards, and the standards do not reward new efficiencies, resources or technologies. So, standards tend to impede development.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:57:35 +0000
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