What is this Agenda 21 referred to by the
anti-sustainability astroturf talking points
movie shown at the Georgia statehouse?
The real Agenda 21 is a typical U.N. set of do-good wishful thinking
documents adopted at a U.N. conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
If you think it’s been successful in actually implementing sustainability,
you haven’t paid attention this summer to the
U.N. Rio+20 successor conference from
activists actually interested in a sustainable economy.
Such pro-sustainability activists generally
bemoaned the lack of effective action in the intervening twenty years:
the climate continues to warm as almost every nation continues to burn
more fossil fuels.
The U.N.’s own Rio+20 document pretty much
relegates such concerns to a sideline to an expanding economy.
The U.N.’s intentions are good: this is a small planet with