Agenda 21

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Agenda 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. It sets out a variety of goals for public policy at all levels and for civic action by non-governmental organizations. These include fair trade practices, sustainable energy and urban development (i.e. more efficient zoning), and debt reduction for the developing world. 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.

Agenda 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 too.

In 2012, however, 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), the governing body of one of the two major American parties, 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. And our precious bodily fluids, no doubt.

The flaw with any vigorous opposition to Agenda 21 is that "the U.S. government and no state or local government is legally bound by the United Nations Agenda 21 treaty," as the RNC accurately asserts in their resolution. 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. 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.

Reaction to Agenda 21 outside the US

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. Apart from those groups and those dealing with them, basically nobody has ever heard about Agenda 21 nor cares about it.

Glenn Beck's Agenda 21 keyword list

1. Affordable housing
2. Ballot Box Planning
3. Benefit of all
4. Benefits-Driven
5. Buffer Zones
6. Cap & Trade
7. Choice
8. Climate Change
9. Common Core Curriculum
10. Common good
11. Community Protocol
12. Comprehensive planning
13. Consensus
14. Conservation Easement
15. Direct instruction
16. Downzoning
17. Endangered species
18. Environment
19. Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
20. Environmental Justice
21. Equity
22. Facilitator
23. Fair
24. General Plan
25. Global Warming
26. Good Business Sense
27. Grants
28. Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions
29. Greenways
30. Growth management
31. Habitat
32. HEAL (Healthy Eating Active Living) Communities
33. Healthy Communities Strategy
34. High Speed Rail
35. Historic preservation
36. Housing Element
37. Inclusive
38. Inter-disciplinary
39. International baccalaureate
40. International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
41. Invasive species
42. Jobs-Housing Connection
43. Land Use Policies
44. Lifelong learning
45. Livable communities
46. Local
47. Local Governments for Sustainability
48. Metropolitan Planning Organizations
49. Mixed Use Development
50. Modeling
51. Multi-Use Dwellings
52. New Economy
53. New Urbanism
54. New World Order
55. One planet communities
56. Open Space
57. Outcome based education
58. Outcomes
59. Parking Policy
60. Precautionary approach
61. Precautionary Principle
62. Preserve
63. Priority Conservation Areas
64. Priority Development Areas (PDA)
65. Prosperity Protect
66. Public/Private partnerships
67. Quality of life
68. Redevelopment
69. Regional
70. Resilient Cities
71. Responsible development
72. Restoration
73. Safe Routes to Schools
74. Sanctuary
75. Scenic views and vistas
76. School to work
77. Sensitive Lands
78. Smart growth
79. Smart Streets
80. Social justice
81. Stack and Pack Housing
82. Stakeholder
83. Sustainable Communities Initiative
84. Sustainable communities partnership
85. Sustainable communities strategies
86. Sustainable development
87. Sustainable Economic Development
88. Sustainable medicine
89. Three "E"s of Sustainablity-Equity, Economy, Environment
90. Traffic calming
91. Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
92. Transportation Justice
93. Triple bottom line
94. Upzoning
95. Urban Growth Boundary
96. Urban revitalization
97. Vehicle Mileage Traveled
98. Tax
99. Vibrant Neighborhoods
100. Vision
101. Visioning Meetings
102. Walkable Communities
103. Watershed
104. Wetlands
105. Wildlands

See also

• Suburban sprawl
• Mass transit
• Effects of automobile on urban planning

External links

• The Anti-Environmentalist Roots of the Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theory, The Atlantic