“Global Sustainability requires the
deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption, and set levels of
mortality control.” -
Professor Maurice King
Progressives
(regressives) have been educating (indoctrinating) our American children
for decades, inculcating (forcing)
ideas such as political correctness (approved
speech), globalism (one world
government), global warming/climate change (redistribution of wealth), income equality (confiscation of wealth), resistance (anarchy), social justice (reverse
discrimination), and tolerance (intolerance).
Progressivism
has generally succeeded in creating a few generations of snowflakes (melting babies given to tantrums) and
college graduates whose degrees were expensive and useless. But nobody is
complaining about higher education escalating costs and globalist
indoctrination.
Progressives
have been urging their followers to make everything smart (U.N. compliant), to learn to deal with water shortages (water usage control) and to plan for green
growth (control and destruction of
property rights).
Progressives
and their U.N.-affiliated organizations have preached to impressionable youth that
it is for the common good (collectivism)
and advanced the cause of global citizenship (U.N.-dependent global
migrant). Teachers have been quite busy attacking patriotism, nationalism,
and sovereignty while promoting destruction of one’s culture and history. https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/23333-un-global-citizenship-education-plan-pushes-social-justice
Smart
growth/green growth (controlling and
destroying property rights) has been pushed in local communities unaware of
the globalist “sustainable visioning”
(global communism) and “nudged” (forced) under the guise that the
community had actually demanded it and voted for it.
Free grant
money from the federal and state government came with sustainability strings
attached to preserve farm land (take it
out of production via conservation easements). Once the farmers received
free money, they were not allowed to develop their own land or produce crops on
it.
Smart Growth
imposed population diversity (government-mandated
race and ethnic balance), encouraged
in every neighborhood through HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
(AFFH). https://www.huduser.gov/portal/affht_pt.html
Obama’s
administration combed neighborhoods to record income levels, religious
affiliations, and racial and ethnic composition. If a neighborhood was not
diverse enough for their liking, policies were put in place to diversify it.
Local government’s
social engineering plans forced people to live in denser populated mixed-use
communities on smaller tracts of land per unit in order to eliminate the need
to commute to work, school, shopping, or play.
The idea
behind such social engineering was that areas more densely populated have less
mobility and are easier to control. It is exactly what communists did during decades
of forced Stalinization, with disastrous results for the population forced off
their lands into high-rise concrete block apartments.
Social
engineering was amply addressed in U.N. Agenda 21 (1992) which morphed into
Agenda 2030 (2015). This newer version expanded the idea that urban sprawl (suburbia) is dangerous to the
environment and the planet. Their Smart Growth/Green Growth plans emphasized
the implementation of walkable communities, rail trails, bike paths, “complete
streets,” “strong communities,” and other visions of utopia, using various
organizations such as the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and the
American Planning Association (APA). https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf
NAR is part
of the Smart Growth Network which also includes the EPA, National Resources
Defense Council (NRDC), American Farmland Trust, Rails to Trails Conservancy,
and the State of Maryland. http://smartgrowth.org/category/partner-spotlight-archives-page/
What would
Smart Growth/Green Growth do? The euphemisms behind the real concepts sound
placid enough. The propaganda materials say that the community will be beautiful,
well-controlled, with high-rises and shopping within biking and walking
distance, a quaint ride on a trolley to the market, “wind turbines turning
lazily in the background to supply all energy needs,” solar panels on every
roof, no “dirty smokestacks, no cars, no parking nightmares, no gridlock, no
urban sprawl, no crime, everyone lives in perfect harmony.”
As our own
county advertised, “The Potomac Community Design Guidelines and Vision of a New
Woodbridge have long called for mixed-use developments based on Smart Growth
principles, such as transit-oriented development and connecting neighborhoods
to amenities such as parks and entertainment hubs.”
The advertised
“Principles of Smart Growth” happen to coincide with those of U.N. Agenda 21:
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Mixed
land use
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Compact
building design
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Walkable
neighborhoods
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Preserve
open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas (if
farmland is preserved, who is going to grow food?)
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Varied
transportation choices (rail, buses, bikes, all reducing mobility for Americans
who are in love with their roads and cars)
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Less
or no parking, thus forcing people to give up their cars (many “stack and pack”
high-rise tiny apartments have no elevators and no parking)
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Segregate
the rich who can afford to buy expensive homes in Eco-Villages, away from
“stack and pack” high rises where the poor will be housed.
Globalists
want to make “holistic” decisions with land use and transportation using Smart
Scale Grants, promising to alleviate congestion. All the problems in our county
could be easily solved if highway 1 and I-95 would be enlarged; they are the
only major roads that carry traffic for locals and for those in transit between
states.
The “stack-and-pack” living in a 200 square foot aPodments high-rise in Sammamish,
Washington is described by a resident who “shares the kitchen with seven other
tenants on the second floor.” To get to a loft cubicle, she must climb six
flights of stairs in the absence of elevators. Cars are not allowed because of
global warming. The micro-apartments are smaller than a hotel room, rent for
$600-900 per month, and contribute to the population density rise in the area.
According to
Tom DeWeese, President of the American Policy Center, The American Planning
Association (APA) commissioned a study of Smart Growth policies and it
concluded that they do not work. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944360903409584?journalCode=rjpa20
But the
Smart Growth planners in your area keep telling you that you live the wrong
way, you are not living the green and smart way. And there is the nagging question, why exactly
do we have to “harmonize” our local, regional, state, and federal Smart Growth
development plans to fit the United Nation’s Agenda 2030? Why must we live the
way the third world U.N. bureaucrats dictate?
The state
and local planners receive ample grants to entice and convince them that “cities
and human settlements must be made inclusive, safe, resilient, and
sustainable.”
The U.N.
Agenda 2030’s sustainable goal number 11.7 supports “positive economic, social,
and environmental links between urban, peri-urban, and rural areas by
strengthening national and regional development planning.” https://una-gp.org/clancyt/files/goals/goal11.pdf
How are
these global directives translating into smart growth regional or urban
planning in your area? As Tom DeWeese pointed out, all you have to do is look
at Portland to see the “stack and pack” smart growth results where the
“complete street,” “traffic calming,” and “strong communities” are in full
effect, “on one side is a vast, dense development,” with high-rise, mixed-use
buildings, and “on the other side is nothing but open land.”
“The result
of Portland’s grand plan is that its increased density destroyed the entire
livable atmosphere of the community. Congestion is worse, housing and consumer
costs are higher, and urban services, including fire, police, and schools, have
declined as the city took money from these programs to subsidize high-density
developers.” https://americanpolicy.org/2015/01/05/private-property-rights-and-socialism-do-not-mix/
In our county
more and more apartments are crowded per acre despite the scarce highways and
traffic bottlenecks; the entire area is significantly congested by condos and
apartments which fill every available space that is not occupied by wildlife
and state parks.
Preserving
the farmland, not for agriculture purposes but placing it in private
environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) trusts’ control for future
generations, is locking it in “conservation easements” in perpetuity in which
the landowner, according to a specific contract, must ask permission to do
anything on his property.
As Tom
DeWeese described, “if the Smart Growth plans are fully implemented, as
advocated by the APA and NAR, density in American cities will be as much as
three times higher than those currently in New York City.”
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