HEAL (Healthy Eating Active Living) Communities.And our precious bodily fluids, no doubt. In 2012, an 'exposé' by former Fox News host Glenn Beck seized upon Agenda 21 as an attempt by radical Nazi communist internationalist homosexuals to 'put their fangs into our communities and suck all the blood out of it, we will not be able to survive.' This began an onslaught of paranoia that has continued ever since, with even such high-level American institutions as the Republican National Committee (RNC) officially condemning Agenda 21 as 'a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control.' The general consensus among a certain segment of the American conservative movement seems to be that socialists and tree-huggers are using Agenda 21 as a template for an insidious contamination of all levels of society. Apart from those groups and those dealing with them, basically nobody has ever heard about Agenda 21 nor cares about it-except conspiracy theorists and those who listen to them. Outside the US, Agenda 21 is moderately known among 'Green' types and there are even some local groups that want to implement Agenda 21 and pressure local and federal politics in that direction. 2.1 Glenn Beck's Agenda 21 keyword list.It's tantamount to mounting a bombastic attack on the Food and Leisure section of your local paper just because you disagreed with a food critic's opinion of a restaurant: you might want a different columnist or different recommendations or even a different section editor, but attacking the section for its audacity in existing makes you seem like a raving lunatic. Accordingly, it makes no sense to demand that it be repudiated: you can argue with it on the merits of what it recommends, but it's silly to savage a set of recommendations for merely daring to exist. government and no state or local government is legally bound by the United Nations Agenda 21 treaty,' as the Republican National Committee (RNC) – the governing body of one of the two major American parties – accurately asserted in a 2012 resolution even as they officially condemned Agenda 21. The flaw with any vigorous political opposition to Agenda 21 is that 'the U.S. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of people have latched on to the repopularizing of the idea, often in connection with denialism and scaremongering concerning the COVID-19 vaccines. The most well-known among them may be Glenn Beck and David Icke. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, several conspiracy theorists again brought up and repopularized the general idea. Īgenda 21 was frequently cited by conspiracy theorists, such as the John Birch Society, during the 1990s as a purported blueprint for implementing the New World Order and population control, then forgotten by them for a number of years. Like most such sets of guidelines, it was happily agreed upon and happily ignored for many years, except for ne'er-do-wells like Sweden. more efficient zoning), and debt reduction for the developing world. These include fair trade practices, sustainable energy and urban development (i.e. It sets out a variety of goals for public policy at all levels and for civic action by non-governmental organizations. Though not a stub by pure word count, this article lacks depth of content.Īgenda 21 is a set of hopeful guidelines for environmental action and social justice established by the United Nations in 1992 at a conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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