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 You might not have read UN Agenda 21 like you read the Rome Treaty before you voted for or against entering the Common Marked. The reason why you were never encouraged to read this document, is that the UN did not need your vote to silently implement Agenda 21 in all political, social and industrial aspects in 178 countries.
Agenda 21 is the main guideline for virtually all policy making. It is covering social "balance", economics, trade, data acquisition and guidelines for attitude towards it's implementation at International level and all the way down to local councils. It is a document which reveals the intentions of the UN and it does so in an idealistic, singleminded and unquestionable way. With other words: the political view of the authors of this document is dictatorial and the basis for all sub commissions under the UN and the stealth doctrine for all political activity virtually all over the world.
Agenda 21 makes sure the developed countries feel great pity for the developing countries and accepts no exception for rich nations, but accepts compromises for developing countries, like in 2.22.g:
Ensure that special factors affecting environment and trade policies in t he developing
countries are borne in mind in the application of environmental standards, as well as in
the use of any trade measures. It is worth noting that standards that are valid in the most
advanced countries may be inappropriate and of unwarranted social cost for the
developing countries;
A paragraph like the one above might seem lucrative from developing countries' point of view at a first glance. However, in the end it is a Robin Hood style method that may have the adverse effect on both developing and developed countries. An example is China, which has installed relative few wind turbines to "look good", and is now taking over more and more of the production that particular Denmark and Germany benefited so much from. In order for China to supply enough electricity for their increased industrial activity, they build a new coal fired power plant every week. China's industrial development is going so fast, that many economists fair their economy could break down, thus the UN intention of sustainable development could turn out to be compromised by the actual Agenda 21 itself.
Turning our attention to climate change or Anthropogenic Global Warming, Agenda 21 is an umbrella for a wealth of UN sub organisations, political bodies, interest groups, lobbies and international firms as in 9.8:
9.8. (Page 77)
Governments at the appropriate level, with the cooperation of the relevant United Nations bodies and,
as appropriate, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, should:
a. Promote research related to the natural processes affecting and being affected by the
atmosphere, as well as the critical linkages between sustainable development and atmospheric
changes, including impacts on human health, ecosystems, economic sectors and society;
b. Ensure a more balanced geographical coverage of the Global Climate Observing System and
its components, including the Global Atmosphere Watch, by facilitating, inter alia, the
establishment and operation of additional systematic observation stations, and by contributing
to the development, utilization and accessibility of these databases;
c. Promote cooperation in:
i. The development of early detection systems concerning changes and fluctuations in
the atmosphere;
ii. The establishment and improvement of capabilities to predict such changes and
fluctuations and to assess the resulting environmental and socio-economic impacts;
d. Cooperate in research to develop methodologies and identify threshold levels of atmospheric
pollutants, as well as atmospheric levels of greenhouse gas concentrations, that would cause
dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system and the environment as a
whole, and the associated rates of change that would not allow ecosystems to adapt naturally;
e. Promote, and cooperate in the building of scientific capacities, the exchange of scientific data
and information, and the facilitation of the participation and training of experts and technical
staff, particularly of developing countries, in the fields of research, data assembly, collection
and assessment, and systematic observation related to the atmosphere
In the above paragraphs it is clearly stated: "the exchange of scientific data and information", which raises the question why UN could allow the RAW data to be "eaten by the dog" at East Anglia University? Sub paragraph b "Ensure a more balanced geographical coverage of the Global Climate Observing System and its components, ..." was totally ignored when the majority of the world's weather stations were abandoned in the late 1990's. My personal guess is that the wast reduction in ground based observations, was due to a falling trend in rising temperatures, and with fewer, mainly "warm" stations left, it was easier to do "doctored" extrapolations.
In terms of what technique to be used for electricity production, the 2002 summery of Agenda 21 is very clear and very mistaken:
Technology
11. Research and Development in Alternative Energy Sources
Agenda 21 requests Governments to reduce adverse effects on
the atmosphere from the energy sector, and increase the con-
tribution of environmentally sound and cost-effective energy
systems, particularly new and renewable ones, through less
polluting and more efficient energy production, transmission,
distribution and use. New and renewable energy sources are
solar thermal, solar photovoltaic, wind, hydro, biomass, geot-
hermal, ocean, animal and human power (9.11).
In the above paragraph it is stated that for example "wind" is a "New and renewable energy source". This has been categorically rejected by experts. There are many reasons why wind turbines cannot be called a "renewable energy source". Wind turbines drain the worlds (China's) resources of rare earth metals, they use an obscure amount of steal, concrete and other resources every ca. 15 years, they cannot substitute conventional power plants, they rely on unpredictable wind speeds and they are damaging to the environment. Wind turbines make sense in some isolated cases, but will only add to both environmental and economic cost, when used in main stream supply. Much the same goes for "solar photovoltaic".
It is possible that "solar thermal" has a future, if it is possible to keep the environmental impact to a minimum and at the same time incorporate efficient heat storage.
It is of great concern that various forms of nuclear energy is not even mentioned in the whole Agenda 21 document, apart from safety and waste management. This, despite the fact that nuclear has the biggest potential at the moment, to provide cheap, clean and reliable power for electricity and heat. In addition nuclear power stations have small footprints.
What concern me most about the Agenda 21, is that it describes in detail what way we all have to live, work, think and in what way we produce our electricity; instead of leaving it up to every country to do what's best for them. They want us all to follow a few activists in the UN, whom we, the common people, had and have no chance to elect or reject. I have sympathy for some aspects of socialistic thinking, but when common sense and democracy is taken out of the equation, I sense a kind of world dictatorship, something that was tried, almost effectuated and finally crushed in Germany during the 1930's recession. I am almost certain that the UN started out with sensible plans and intentions after WW2, but today it seems to be infiltrated by an ideology with a very narrow scope. Had they not been so successful, we could all just laugh and go on making the world a better place.
My hope is that many people will read the Agenda 21 or at least parts of it. I see this document as the constitution of the world governing UN. It is shaping our national and local laws, and it is not a democratic constitution you can change, reject or avoid. This is a process that has progressed throughout half a century and with leading countries like the US supporting Agenda 21 in great detail, we are likely to suffer from the agenda's countless mistakes for many decades to come.
However, maybe we can counteract some of the worst implications, by acting bottom-up in the same way Agenda 21 is acting top-down. We might need to go to the local council and say, "No thanks to UN ideology", go to local politicians and say what we really want to have, get parties and politicians, with real sustainable politics, elected to the national parliament. Eventually the UN will be left in a sandbox hailing their ridiculous agendas between themselves, and saving the world for more financial, environmental and human disasters.
You can find the relevant documents here:
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/Agenda21.pdf
http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/wssd/summarypublication.pdf
or in case the UN move or remove the documents in fear of public uprising:
http://klimabedrag.dk/Download-document/30-Agenda21
http://klimabedrag.dk/Download-document/31-summarypublication
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