The Axis of Environmental Evil
By Alan Caruba

The evil that is environmentalism will be on full display in
Johannesburg,
South Africa, from August 26 through September 4. The United Nations
summit
to be held there comes ten years after the Rio Summit that generated
the hoax
of global warming. It put in motion the mechanism of "sustainable
environment" and the vast propaganda campaign that the Earth was
running out
all its natural resources. The answer, they said, was a massive
restructuring
of capitalism to "save" the Earth.

Restructuring isn't the right word. Elimination is the right word. The
true
purpose of environmentalism is the imposing of Socialism/Communism on
the
nations of the world. Having fought a long Cold War after WWII,
Russia's
Communism came crashing down along with the Berlin Wall, proving to
anyone
with any sense that this economic system, based on the theory of class
warfare, doesn't work. The Europeans and others have failed to notice
this.

On August 2nd, a letter signed by 31 men and women who devote their
lives to
the defense of liberty here at home and throughout the world was sent
to
President Bush. I was one of those who signed it. It concerned the
forthcoming Johannesburg Summit.

Brought together by Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise
Institute, the
letter began by applauding President Bush's decision not to attend the
Summit
in person. "Even more than the Earth Summit in 1992, the Johannesburg
Summit
will provide a global media stage for many of the most irresponsible
and
destructive elements involved in critical international economic and
environmental issues."

"We also strongly support your opposition to signing new international
environmental treaties or creating new international environmental
organizations at the Johannesburg Summit. In our view, the worst
possible
outcome at Johannesburg would be taking any steps toward creating a
World
Environmental Organization, as the European Union has suggested."

The forthcoming Summit is based on the foundations put in place in Rio,
now
referred to as Agenda 21. It is quite an agenda, indeed. It is a plan
for
global governance.

That is why the Johannesburg Summit is so important to the forces
driving it.
The Summit is the essential instrument for those who would impose a
global,
one world, government on the United States and all other nations.

The Johannesburg Summit will send up a great hue and cry over the
failure of
Third World or undeveloped nations to make any progress. The reason is
obvious to everyone. These nations are in the grip of despots and
Communists
whose sole purpose is to loot their wealth. Despite their natural
resources
that Capitalism would turn into employment and the enrichment of their
citizens, the undeveloped nations remain undeveloped due to corruption
and
criminality of every description.

As the August 2nd letter to the President correctly points out, "World
Bank
studies have concluded that there is a direct correlation between
national
prosperity and environmental quality and that environmental conditions
improve rapidly as poor nations become wealthier."

You can count on the liberal, mainstream media to blare forth the lies
to
come from the Johannesburg Summit. It remains for the US to take the
lead to
end the "global warming" myth and to trumpet the real answer to the
world's
needs, the further spread of democracy, national sovereignty, and
liberty.
The world needs stable governments and free markets operating under the
rule
of law.

The objective of the Johannesburg Summit is power through the aegis of
a
single, global government administered by unelected Communists
operating
behind the curtain of the United Nations.

Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs", posted on
www.anxietycenter.com, the Internet site of The National Anxiety
Center.

Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2002