UN AGENDA 21: Cap and Trade Calls for Productive U.S. Farmland to be Converted to Forests Posted by ckemp30312 on 08/19/09 2:56 PM Published on 08-19-2009 http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-08-19-forest_N.htmSource: USA TodayWASHINGTON - New forests would spread across the American landscape, replacing both pasture and farm fields, under a congressional plan to confront climate change, an Environmental Protection Agency analysis shows. About 18 million acres of new trees - roughly the size of West Virginia - would be planted by 2020, according to an EPA analysis of a climate bill passed by the House of Representatives in June. That's because the House bill gives financial incentives to farmers and ranchers to plant trees, which suck in large amounts of the key global-warming gas: carbon dioxide. The forestation effort would be even larger than one carried out by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression, says the U.S. Forest Service's Ralph Alig. The CCC, which lasted from 1933 to 1942, planted 3 billion trees, says the Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy, an alumni group for workers and family members. The environmental benefits are clear. More trees would not only lower carbon dioxide levels, but they would improve water quality, because they need lower levels of pesticides and fertilizers, says agricultural economist Bruce McCarl of Texas A&M University, who contributed to the EPA analysis. The plan would, however, be hard on ranchers and farmers and potentially food prices, says American Farm Bureau chief economist Bob Young. In the Senate, which is likely to consider a similar bill this fall, there are some who worry the loss of farmland would lead to increases in food prices worse than those seen in mid-2007, when costs spiked 7% to 8% above 2006 levels. If those food prices seemed high, "wait till you start moving agricultural acres into climate-change areas," warns Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., Agriculture secretary for President George W. Bush.
Now, check this out, from the same Campaign For Liberty post:
If you do not understand what UN Agenda 21 is read here first and use a legal dictionary to understand in plain language to see their real plan..http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_00.shtmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21 Agenda 21 is a programme run by the United Nations (UN) related to sustainable development. It is a comprehensive blueprint of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the UN, governments, and major groups in every area in which humans impact on the environment. In 1997, the General Assembly of the UN held a special session to appraise five years of progress on the implementation of Agenda 21 (Rio +5). The Assembly recognized progress as 'uneven' and identified key trends including increasing globalization, widening inequalities in income and a continued deterioration of the global environment. A new General Assembly Resolution (S-19/2) promised further action.
By Sheldon Richman Published 11/20/09 © 2009 Future of Freedom Foundation If the politicians who are bent on redesigning the medical and medical-insurance industries really wanted only to curb rising prices and help the uninsured get coverage, they would have zeroed in on the previous government interventions that created those problems. Instead, they are pushing grand schemes to turn our medical decision-making over to bureaucrats. That indicates that the so-called reform campaign is about power. Medical care is too expensive. Prices for services rise faster than other prices, and there's reason to believe much of the money is wasted. Expensive medical care equates to expensive insurance, which prices some people out of the market. This has been called a failure of the free market, but that can't be: There is no free market. I defy the advocates of government control to name one aspect of medicine or insurance that government doesn't dominate. The anti-market system politicians have put in place -- as pleasing as it is for the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and organized medicine -- harms the public. Yet it would be easy for them remove the harmful interventions. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]
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