Inmates are Running the Asylum
James
By Henry Lamb
Three NGOs (non-government organizations) drive the global environmental
agenda, including the global warming agenda.
They are: the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); the
Worlwide Fund for Nature (WWF); and the
Natural Resources Institute. These three NGOs are listed in the June, 1999
report of the Global Environment Facility, as
either "Executing Agency," or "Collaborating organization," on 45 projects
around the world, totaling $840,027,000.
There's big bucks in the environment business.
The IUCN includes in its membership, 111 government agencies, among which
are: the U.S. State Department; the
Department of Interior; the Department of Agriculture, and the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). Each department
of government pays a separate membership fee in excess of $50,000 per year,
and signs an agreement that they will not
execute policies that are in conflict with those of the IUCN. Additionally,
the IUCN counts among its members, 731 Green
Advocacy Groups (GAGs) that include The Nature Conservancy; the Sierra Club;
the Environmental Defense Fund; and
most of the more familiar names in the United States.
A former President of the IUCN, Shridath Ramphal, graduated to become
co-chair of the Commission on Global
Governance. A former Director of the National Wildlife Federation, Jay Hare,
graduated to become the President of the
IUCN, and then moved on to take his seat on the President's Council on
Sustainable Development.
The Natural Resources Institute produced Gustave Speth, who after serving a
term on Clinton's transition team, went on to
head the United Nations Development Program. Speth's policy analyst at NRI,
Rafe Pomerance is still a high-level official
in the U.S. State Department.
The inmates are running the asylum! And they are getting paid handsomely to
do it.
The influence of these three NGOs on both international and national policy
is immeasurable. The tax dollars they are
getting is measurable, if it can be found. The nearly $1 billion that flowed
through the GEF is only a small portion of the
total dollars extracted from tax payers by the government, and then turned
over to GAGs to promote hype and hysteria to
justify more programs to solve problems they dream up. In the language of
the U.N. this is called "awareness building and
outreach."
The money that GAGs get from government is not easy to track. Aside from
grants and contracts awarded to favored
green groups that are almost impossible to track, there are pass-through
arrangements that rarely are identified. For
example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sponsored a
Joint Expert Meeting in the Netherlands in
early 1999. The expenses of the meeting were paid for, in part, by the EPA.
A report of the meeting circulated at the Bonn
global warming talks, reveals that certain NGOs were invited, and their
expenses were paid out of the budget for the
meeting.
The IUCN is the granddaddy of all the NGOs. It was created in 1948 by the
same Julian Huxley who founded UNESCO.
The IUCN spawned the WWF in 1961, which then helped create the Natural
Resources Institute in 1982. The three
organizations, with their GAG affiliates, have come to dominate the
environmental agenda and are now implementing their
agenda through governments at every level.
Frank Loy, Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, and head of the U.S.
Delegation to the global warming talks, has
been on the board of directors of the Environmental Defense Fund since 1981,
serving as its chair from 1983 to 1990. He
also served on the board of the League of Conservation Voters, whose former
President, Bruce Babbitt, now heads the
Department of Interior. George Frampton, now chairman of the President's
Council on Environmental Quality, was
President of the Wilderness Society.
The list goes on and on. The people who are now in positions of power to
implement the policies developed by NGOs
were once the executives of the NGOs whose policies they are now
implementing. They are also in positions of power to
give tax dollars to the NGOs of their choice, to fund the propaganda
activity required to make their policies acceptable.
It is an ingenious scheme. Trusting citizens tend to accept what the
government, or what the United Nations says, not
realizing that the people who are doing the talking are the same people who
previously ran the various GAGs. For all
practical purposes, the United Nations, and the Clinton White House,
provides a cloak of ambiguous legitimacy to a
radical, highly-questionable, if not downright fraudulent, global
environmental agenda.
How can the U.N., or the White House, dismiss out of hand the mounting
scientific evidence that challenges the very
existence of global warming? It's simple; they must. They must ignore the
science, and, moreover, they must discredit any
and all skeptics. Otherwise, the gravy-train could be derailed. If ordinary
citizens who fork out the tax dollars ever realized
that their hard-earned bucks are being used to perpetuate a process that
need not exist, a bunch of bureaucrats could be
looking for a job.
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