The global front group of the Agenda 21 program which was formalized during the UN’s 1992 Earth Summit is proud to welcome Monsanto as its newest “member”, joining the likes of such “sustainable” businesses as Coca Cola, Dutch Royal Shell and other global leviathans.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has put out a press release, announcing that Monsanto has joined the effort for “global sustainable development”. The Council consists of several global mega-corporations such as Dutch Royal Shell and Coca Cola, to mention just a few.
The press-release notes that by joining the Council “Monsanto is taking an important step along a continuum towards developing a more sustainable agriculture system – one that improves our daily lives, respects our global environment and recognizes the importance of the world’s small-holder farmers”.
President of the WBCSD, Peter Bakker, stated that “a future vision” is required to move “to protect soils, enhance ecosystems and optimize land use in ways that are environmentally sound.”
“(…) we must move towards a future vision for agriculture where absolutes become as out of place as a one-size-fits-all approach to farming.”
Jerry Steiner, Executive Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Affairs at Monsanto said:
“We are excited to join the WBCSD and connect with a global coalition of more than 200 companies that advocate for progress on sustainable development.”
The global coalition Steiner speaks about consists of just about all global mega-corporations. Here’s an overview of the membership-list as posted on the WBCSD’s website:
The Council on their website admits that it strives to execute Agenda 21 as part of a “One World Vision”. Furthermore, the WBCSD describes that it “has its roots in the proactive stance adopted by a group of visionary business leaders during and after the Rio Summit.”
“The Rio Summit in 1992 was a defining event for sustainable development. It added development to the environmental agenda, produced the Rio Declaration, the Climate Change and Biological Diversity Conventions and set in motion Agenda 21. Importantly, it positioned business as a key actor.”
Adding global GM food producer Monsanto to its roundtable equals victory for Agenda 21, as global food production is a prime concern as formulated during the 1992 Earth Summit.
Peter Bakker, the Council’s president, recently gave a speech in London for prince Charles, stating he is “delighted to be able to announce that WBCSD will collaborate with the Prince of Wales’ Accounting for Sustainability programme in convening a forum for CFOs and Accountants to discuss and develop scaled up solutions for finance and reporting in the run up to 2020”.
Bakker stated: “In 1992 the United Nations organized the first Earth Summit in Rio and Agenda 21 was published. If you read this document today you will be amazed at how relevant the descriptions of the world’s challenges are still in 2012 – only their urgency has increased since 1992.”
In 2011 the Council prepared a document for the latest Earth Summit in 2012 titled Vision 2050. In the document a “radical strategy” is being proposed in order to achieve this “one world” under an Agenda 21 regime:
“From 2020 to 2050, the traits formed during the first decade mature into more consistent knowledge, behavior and solutions. It is a period of growing consensus as well as wrenching change in many parts of society – climate, economic power, population – and a time for fundamental change in markets that redefines values, profits and success.”
The manuscript stresses that the vision for 2050 entails, among other things, a stabilization of the global population and a redistributing of the global population into compact cities:
“In 2050, some 9 billion people live well, and within the limits of the planet. The global population has begun to stabilize, mainly due to the education and economic empowerment of women and increased urbanization. More than 6 billion people, two-thirds of the population, live in cities. People have the means to meet their basic human needs, including the need for dignified lives and meaningful roles in their communities.”
Another aspect of the described “vision” relates to a new “green revolution” and the use of biotechnologies to “feed the world”:
A 21st century version of the Green Revolution has helped the larger 2050 population meet its nutrition needs. Improved agricultural practices, water efficiency, new crop varieties and new technologies, including biotechnologies, have allowed a doubling of agricultural output without associated increases in the amount of land or water used.”
This, of course, is where our old friend Monsanto comes into play, which has now formally aligned itself with the global coordinating group of Agenda 21.
agreed!
Association with Monsanto confirms the path of Agenda 21 and may actually help our fight against both.
“The bald wild animals raised a huge flag and we immediately obtained subpoenas for the medical records of all 600 plus adults who took part in focus groups and taste tests of the cucumbers by Monsanto in Canada,” said Dr. Nancy Walker, Director of Public Health Research at Dalhousie. “Fully 3/4 of the people who ate these cukes had their crotch area hair fall out. This is not a joking matter at all…these people now have hairless heinies.”
evil deeds against the earth and her people.. They destroyed our water,our animals now our food..
Who’s promoting? We’re an information resource.
Also, incidentally, we post on the ill effects of GMOs on nearly a daily basis – you can check out our Health and Environmental sections for those articles, including the one you mentioned about the rats with tumors.
I… should laugh? But I can’t because it’s so sad D:
I shall pray instead; my options are limited.
what a complete fucking joke never heard so much bullshit,them fuckers at monsanto playing god,they’ll burn in hell.
if your going to post this garbage at least attach the lab results of testing gm food stuffs on rats and having the tumors and cancers morph and deform every single one. or the press releases stating that most other countries are banning ALL monsanto products. i mean mcdonalds is horrible for you and they wont even use gm pickles from monsanto. and that was becuse they make your genital hair fall out days after consumption. promoting this treason is insanity.
is this a joke are we really that idiotic that we think replacing any natural growing plants and animals with genetically modified mutated and chemically altered organisms is a good thing? this reporting is carrless and offensive, the journalist should be ashamed promoting a tyrannical governing body who wants nothing but to cull the populace submissively.
If you definition of “sustainable” is to rape and foul the earth with genetically modified crops that require far more herbicide and pesticide (also made by Monsanto what a surprise) and that leave the soil they are grown in utterly sterile, and that foist unlabeled products made from those crops on the general public… then, I guess Monsanto might be considered a “sustainable” enterprise. For the rest of us, who know what Monsanto (as well as the rest of the Agenda 21 corporations are up to (operating under a classic “bait and switch” plan to further destroy the environment) you cannot fool us any longer. We know you all for what you really are.
Kindly cancel my Agenda 21 membership.
These corrupt baskets CANNOT even define “sustainability”
yet the cretins assume we support their demand to run our world.
Words fail me…. why d’ya think we demand our rights under
the Second Amendment if the idiots refuse to THINK