Greening the World Economy: The New World Religion of Radical Environmentalism

Socialism is not a Constitutional Capitalist Republic. Regardless of what ever else is stated about the environmental agenda of the nations of the world, it all leads to the U.S. becoming a Socialist country in every sense of the word. Thus the push by all the socialist and Obamites coming out of the woodwork. It's all converging into an us vs. them scenario. And there are a hell of a lot of them pushing their cause — now what about us? There are thousands of organizations and millions of people against us. Including our own government. The task before us is monumental. The opposing forces are working very hard to take us down. - Roger Monk, 100 Million Patriots Standing, July 16, 2011

Shaping a Sustainable Future: The IUCN Programme 2009–2012 (Excerpt)

This document is the IUCN Programme 2009–2012 as adopted at the World Conservation Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 5–14 October 2008. It is part of a set of documents which, together, form the IUCN Intersessional Plan for 2009-2012.

International Union for Conservation of Nature - ...In 1948 [the same year the Israel once again became a nation], as the world was awakening from a long night of war and horror and designing a new international order for peace and security, a small group of committed conservationists had the vision that 18 governments, seven international organizations and 107 national organizations would be much stronger and achieve much more if they combined their efforts for the conservation of nature.

Before the signing of the Fontainebleau Declaration that established IUCN on 4 October 1948, the famous writer, Aldous Huxley was writing to his brother, Julian, then Director General of UNESCO and one of the founders of IUCN:

“Meanwhile I come to feel more and more that no system of morals is adequate which does not include within the sphere of moral relationships, not only other human beings, but animals, plants and even things.

“We have done quite monstrously badly by the earth we live in, and now the earth we live in, with its soil eroded, its forests ravaged, its rivers polluted, its mineral resources reduced, is doing so badly by us that, unless we stop our insane fiddling at power politics and use all available knowledge, intelligence and good will to repair the harm we have done, the whole of mankind will be starving in a dust bowl within a century or two. People still seem to believe that there is poverty in the midst of plenty, when in fact there is only poverty in the midst of growing poverty – and all through our own fault, through not treating nature morally. […]

“If we don’t do something about it pretty soon, we shall find that, even if we escape atomic warfare, we shall destroy our civilization by destroying the cosmic capital on which we live. Our relation to earth is not that of mutually beneficial symbiosis; we have become the kind of parasite that kills its host, even at the risk of killing itself.”

Today, IUCN unites more than 1000 States, government agencies, international and national non-governmental organizations working together towards sustainability. The spirit that inspired its founders to sign the Fontainebleau Declaration has kept all its relevance: environmental health underpins human well-being.

IUCN’s unique structure enables democratic and open dialogues between civil society and governments; the steady growth of its knowledge and expertise, and the pooling of knowledge and resources in integrated approaches to conservation for sustainable development are having a positive impact throughout the world.

This Programme is the result of extensive consultations with and within IUCN members, Commissions, donors and other partners. It shows the practical ways in which the Union of 84 governments, 111 government agencies, 874 international and national non-governmental organizations and 35 affiliates plans to shape sustainable solutions for the future. It describes how IUCN’s value added and competencies in providing credible knowledge, convening stakeholders and ensuring the policy-practice loop is maintained from local to global levels will be employed in practice. It specifies what we will deliver for conservation from the heartland work of IUCN on conserving biodiversity and strategically intervening in four thematic programme areas from 2009 to 2012.

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