The Earth - The New God of the 21st Century
By: Mary Mostert, Editor, Michael Reagan MONTHLY MONITOR
Reprinted From May 1997 Mike Reagan's MONTHLY MONITOR
Editor's Note: We are posting this article from the May 1997 issue of Michael Reagan's MONTHLY MONITOR because observers in Kyoto (see the following report) are beginning to realize what we reported seven months ago - that the real problem we are facing over global warming and population control is not a problem of conflicting science or politics - but a new religion. The world seems to be sliding back into Druidism, and other ancient, pre-Christian forms of nature worship.
Suddenly out of nowhere, it seems, we are hearing the phrase "sustainable development" which suddenly seems to be at the root of nearly every discussion about the environment, laws pertaining to "endangered species," and the rapidly growing expansion of Federal land seizures. We hear fleeting mentions here and there about "biodiversity" and our national parks being designated as "United Nations World Heritage Sites." We hear dire warnings first that man (and woman) caused a hole in the ozone layer with air conditioning units and hair spray cans, which was causing a dangerous warming trend. Then, when the coldest weather on record hit this year, we are told that the man caused hole in the ozone layer was causing "climate changes."
Even those few citizens, like myself, who are working full time tracking government actions in the world, and at the United Nations, have a problem trying to figure out exactly what is occurring and why, whether or not it is significant, and exactly where, if anywhere, all the talk about "sustainable development" is going and what it is going to mean in our individual lives. This issue is late because I was waiting for the report on the PrepCom on Sustainable Development, which took place in New York April 14-25. The research that I have put into trying to get to the bottom of what is happening has taken several hundred hours. Sustainable development is the new buzz word in UN circles and will be the main course at Earth Summit II June 23-27 when the United Nations General Assembly will discuss and vote on the UN Commission on Sustainable Development Report.
While the average American believes that the environmental protection horror stories we hear from time to time, generally through talk radio, are the result of bureaucracy run amuck, my research has convinced me that it is not. We are dealing with something much worse. We have a monolithic, global, conspiratorial new religion. It has been taking root, largely at our own expense, through an incredible maze of United Nations meetings, conventions, documents, implementations, treaties and the like. It blandly announces that it will " address the many interrelated social, economic, and ecological problems that face the world today," by getting humanity to "undergo a radical change in its attitudes, values and behavior."
A radical change in attitudes, values and behavior? That's pretty sweeping. Exactly which values does the United Nations want me and my family to radically change? I'm pretty satisfied with my value system.
The Rio+5 Conference was designed to pull together and prepare to implement the "Sustainable Development" doctrine. The "Earth Charter" was the issue under discussion which is being written by, among others, Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of Russia who presided over the final death throes of a collapsing nation with seventy years of experience in managing its means of production and growth. Out of the 1992 Rio Conference on Environment and Development, Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong, got together. Gorbachev's Green Cross International organization, and Strong, Chairman of Earth Council, who has been a guiding force in United Nations Environment goals since the first meeting in Stockholm in 1972, have a well financed and well organized world juggernaut in process.
A key part of World Communism has always been the elimination of or the careful management of religion, considered by Marxists worldwide to be the "opiate of the masses."
Apparently there is a new idea among those with hostility towards religion, especially the Christian religion. The masses have shown themselves quite determined to hold onto their particular "opiate." The new twist apparently is to create a NEW "opiate of the masses" which will change mankind. It will lead to One World Government - under, naturally, United Nations control, with people like Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev in the wings, pulling strings.
But first, those who plan to be the ones who will run that One World Government have to get the people of the world to follow them. That can be done the way Genghis Khan did it. As the Encyclopedia Britannica put it, this rare leader could hardly have taken over China, Manchuria, Russia, Turkey, Afghanistan and what is now Iran and Iraq with his 100,000 men. While he was brutal to those who opposed him, he was "skilled in tribal politics, international diplomacy and what is today called psychological warfare."
At first not much seemed to change under Genghis Khan. It was only after he became very powerful and people wanted to oppose him that massacres to intimidate balky cities took place.
What we are seeing right now in environmentalism is mostly stage one: tribal politics, international diplomacy and psychological warfare. You see the tribal politics browsing the Internet postings of United Nations conferences and the "Green" organizations web sites. The psychological warfare has been in full bloom since the children were being told in public school in the early 1970s that they would be wearing gas masks because of air pollution by the time they were twenty-five. The dire predictions change over the years. Now it's the hole in the ozone layer.
Gorbachev said at a press conference on March 17, and repeated it on at least two other occasions, "the Ten Commandments are out of date." He announced that they would be replaced by the 18 principles of the Earth Charter, which is still being drafted. It was hoped that it would be attached to the Commission on Sustainable Development Draft which has just been completed at the United Nations PrepCom meeting held April 14-25th.
While it had been hoped that the Earth Charter would be complete and ready for adoption by the UN General Assembly at Earth Summit II in June 1997, it does not as yet have the approval of all who are dedicated to its adoption - at least in some form.
However, comparing previous Earth Charters with the March 1997 proposed charter it doesn't improve with time. It gets worse.
At any rate, the 18 principles in the Earth Charter Benchmark Draft, which came out of the Rio+5 (Which means it has been five years since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) in Rio de Janeiro are being pushed by an amazing worldwide coalition of environmental, animal rights, and no-growth advocates.
In hundreds of hours of research into these documents, I have found not a single mention of a Creator, God, Creator God or any indication whatever that those writing the documents have even any such concept. Note that the beginning paragraph states we are "humbled before the Earth...and the sources of our being."
At the bottom of the new religion is, in a nutshell, that the Earth, not God who created the earth, is the source of our being. Once that concept is understood - it all falls into place. Man is not, as the Bible states, created in God's image. There apparently IS no God. Therefore, God could not "blessed them" and "said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (Genesis 1:28) The Benchmark Draft of The Earth Charter is published exactly as written and posted on the Internet by the Earth Council as prepared at Rio+5 in March of this year. Note that in the Bible, "earth" is not capitalized. God is capitalized.
In the Earth Charter, God does not appear. However, "Earth" is consistently capitalized. It is to Earth, not to God, that mankind owes allegiance, reverence, loyalty and support. It is for the Earth, unhampered and untended by destructive humanity for which we must sacrifice not only our industrial age material comforts and progress, but even our children or our potential children through abortion or other means.
In the 1970's, the cry was for zero population growth. Today the demand is for a reduction of humanity in actual numbers. Somebody has to go.
It tells us that the "biosphere" is "governed by laws." It doesn't mention how the laws got there. No source of the laws is cited.
Of course, Gorbachev and Strong are not the only people around who, having accepted the basic premise of "Earth First," write documents and propose solutions. Ted Kaczynski, better known as the "Unabomber" also wrote a document, which, after sending letter bombs to certain representatives of the industrial age enemy, he demanded be printed, lest he kill again.
On page 5 in this issue are excerpts from Unabomber's Manifesto. His premise is exactly the same as that of the radical environmentalist who have adopted the "value" that mankind is simply a predator animal which is capable of destroying Mother Earth. On Page 6 are excerpts from the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Report on Sustainable Development which the United Nations General Assembly will discuss and vote on June 23-27 at Earth Summit II. Understanding Biodiversity is the key to understanding Sustainable Development. How often has man be shown throughout history, from Cain to Genghis Khan to Joseph Stalin to Adolph Hitler: When man denies the existence of God, and proposes to become a law unto himself, bowing down to other gods, he loses his sense of direction and horrible things happen as a result. Next month the UN will vote to accept or reject this newest effort for man to become a law unto himself. To stop it we first must realize what is happening and then alert our elected leaders that they are not to continue to finance the destruction of our freedoms and our God-given rights by continuing to appropriate money for the United Nations. As Susan Roylance, President of United Families International so aptly put it, "Stop Funding the Nonsense!"
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