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GLOBAL GREENS PUSH FOR GLOBAL GOVERNMENT
A green elite of environmentalists, politicians and bureaucrats
is pushing for global regulation and world government to solve
exaggerated environmental problems, such as climate change and
ozone depletion, claims a new publication from the Institute of
Economic Affairs.
A number of international treaties reflect this global green
agenda, say authors Jeremy Rabkin and James Sheehan.
o The Biodiversity Convention, under the pretext of species
protection, authorizes increased government control of
private land use, and plans already exist to extend its
restrictions to biotechnology innovation via a Biosafety
Protocol.
o The Basle Convention controls trade in waste, scrap and
recyclable materials by defining various metals as
hazardous, and Greenpeace wants it used to exclude
developing countries from global scrap metal markets.
o The Convention to Combat Desertification aims to prevent
land degradation by giving $30 billion to African
governments for anti-desertification efforts; but such aid
has perpetuated land mismanagement by promoting centrally
planned irrigation projects, subsidized farming and inept
agro-forestry policies.
o The Persistent Organic Pollutants Treaty being negotiated
by governments of more than 150 countries may ban many
pesticides, including those crucial to the eradication of
disease-carrying mosquitoes in developing countries, such
as DDT.
The efforts of this green elite are self-reinforcing. Government
officials in developed countries, U.N. bureaucrats and their
pressure group allies lobby for increased appropriations for
agencies such as the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility
and national bilateral development agencies. In return for their
support, environmental organizations receive subsidies and
recognized status at international meetings. Thus, for instance,
at the 1997 Kyoto climate meeting there were 3,500
representatives from (predominantly European) pressure groups and
only 1,500 delegates from member governments.
Source: Jeremy Rabkin and James Sheehan (Competitive Enterprise
Institute), "Global Greens, Global Governance," Environment
Working Paper No. 4, 1999, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2 Lord
North Street, London SW1P 3LB, (0171) 799 3745.
For IEA text http://www.iea.org.uk/
For more on the Environment go to
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/enviro/envdex1.html
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