Maurice Strong

[styky]

Population implosion worrying



Bruce Wilson has written a letter (Jan. 17), very concerned about overpopulation as the "single biggest underlying cause of our planet's environmental issues."

I submit that the greatest single danger to our world nowadays is the looming population implosion. Babies are born with mouths to feed but also brains to solve problems and souls to save. Gandhi said that the earth is well able to provide for all people's needs but certainly not all people's desires.

Recently I read of Ted Turner, who has five children and two million acres of land on which he raises bison, calling for the reduction of the world's population through a Chinese style global one-child policy. When wealthy and powerful (white) men like Turner, Gates, Buffet and Soros and Canada's own Maurice Strong call for drastic measures to reduce population (for whose supposed benefit?), watch out, we're in for it.

Population has mostly gone up drastically the past few decades because fewer people are dying very young due to health advances, and I say Hallelujah.

A stable population rate is 2.1 children per completed family. Most developed countries except for the U.S. are well below this rate and will not be able to continue to sustain a modern developed economy as a result. Canada at 1.6 is overly dependent on immigration.

A number of economists have recently determined that Muslim countries such as Indonesia, Egypt, Malaysia and Turkey will very much increase in economic influence because they are open to babies.

To be fruitful and multiply pays dividends both for people and for God's earth.

http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/Articl ... ?e=2939432

[Lyonnese]

so sad

Why's that? If you don't mind me asking.

Because they are marching to a different drum, one which is kept in secret from us all. That's why.
Our representatives to do our bidding have lost their moral compass. We need to demand they come back to reality of get booted. These street demos are just the thin edge of the wedge so far.

[Neo-Liberal]

so sad

Why's that? If you don't mind me asking.

Because they are marching to a different drum, one which is kept in secret from us all. That's why.
Our representatives to do our bidding have lost their moral compass. We need to demand they come back to reality of get booted. These street demos are just the thin edge of the wedge so far.

Unfortunately true.

How ya doing Lyonnese.

[Lyonnese]

Here arent I..I'm ready!

[Neo-Liberal]

That`s good. It seems the AGW scam is starting to hemorrage. Read the latest posts in the top thread.

[styky]

Maurice Strong Sustainability protégé headed for jail
- Judi McLeod Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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The guilty verdict and 16-year prison sentence of asbestos billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny is a Red Letter Day for the many fighting the hypocrisy of the Maurice Strong-fermented ‘Sustainability Business’. ................http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44759

[OnlySaying]

Maurice Strong Sustainability protégé headed for jail

Judi McLeod Tuesday, February 21, 2012


The guilty verdict and 16-year prison sentence of asbestos billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny is a Red Letter Day for the many fighting the hypocrisy of the Maurice Strong-fermented ‘Sustainability Business’.

Schmidheiny, found guilty of being partially responsible for causing death, pain and suffering to thousands from asbestos-related illnesses, is second only to Canadian-born, UN Poster Boy Strong in the Sustainability ethos.

“A court in Turin, Italy, ruled today that Schmidheiny and lead Eternit shareholder Jean-Louis de Cartier de Marchienne were partially responsible for hundreds of deaths and illnesses caused by asbestos in Eternit factories.” (Bloomberg, Feb. 13, 2012). “They were also sentenced to pay damages, which reportedly could reach past 250 million euros ($330 million), to be determined in a separate civil proceeding to victims’ relatives and to a number of local authorities.”

The epitome of this cautionary tale is how people, touted worldwide as eco saviours, are sometimes the same ones who cost people their lives and make them ill. A chill must be running down the spine of Schmidheiny puppet master Strong, whose long time Number One sustainability protégé now faces prison.

While avoiding litigation that has already sent many in the global asbestos cartel bankrupt until justice caught up with him last week, Schmidheiny, has been spreading the global message of Business Sustainability since Strong’s 1992 Earth Summit.

The term ‘eco-efficient’ took root at the Summit and billions of dollars were made in its name.

Schmidheiny is to ‘eco-efficient’, what the exposure of man made global warming scientist emails were to Climategate. Environmental movement members of the day are now not the only ones who know that the ‘Patron saint of Sustainability‘ ran another business that cost so many their lives.

International mainstream media miss the boat by nicknaming Schmidheiny the “Bill Gates of Switzerland”. As Strong’s long term protégé, Schmidheiny is living proof that the Sustainability Movement can be a cover to hide those insensitive to the health and well being of others.

‘Maurice Strong/ Stephan Schmidheiny Man-made Sustainability’ is a global mockery if any of its main advocates operate businesses that claim human lives and sicken honest factory workers.

Most people now know that a court case on behalf of nearly 3,000 asbestos disease-stricken people in Europe brought justice to the company founded by two of Europe’s richest men for “criminal negligence”. But few know that the “Bill Gates of Switzerland” is none other than the founder of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. To this day the Council provides a forum for some 200 member companies with a combined revenue of more than $7trillion “to develop innovative tools that change the status quo,” according to its own website.

“The Council has published a vision for 2050 that urges companies to incorporate the cost of externalities such as carbon and water into the marketplace and to halt deforestation. The group will participate in the Rio+20 sustainable development conference that will be held the third week in June.

In his own words, Schmidheiny founded the council to do the bidding of Strong, then secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development to “represent the voice of business” at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

As Schmidheiny depends on the creativity of lawyers to avoid having to don the orange coveralls of the prisoner, Strong remains holed up in China, where he fled in the aftermath of the UN Oil-for-Food scandal.

“Schmidheiny’s books include Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development, co-authored with former DuPont Co. Chief Executive Officer Charles Holliday and former Royal Dutch Shell Plc Chairman Phil Watts.”

Schmidheiny waxed poetic in describing his first meeting with Strong:


“It all started in 1990; I had come to a resting place in a decade-long job of turning a global construction materials business into a diversified portfolio of companies: banking, electronic instruments, watches, forestry, water systems, and some very different types of construction materials. Resting from the rat race of business, I could afford to think about such “luxury” issues as a safe and clean environment.

“I was in an introspective mood. The 1980s had been a bad time for the environment; we were told that rainforests and whales would not be with us much longer and that the climate was changing beyond recognition or predictability, but that none of this would matter because we would soon all be dead of skin cancer because of the hole in the ozone layer. That, at least, was the way the message came through to an industrialist not paying close attention.

“However, the 1980s had been fairly kind to me and my attempts to change my business holdings. So I wondered privately, and then aloud in a speech I made in 1990, how we could create a world in which what was good for the planet was good for business, and vice versa.

“Not many people heard my short address, made in the L-shaped hold of a noisy, creaking wooden ship tied up in Bergen, Norway, where the wealthier countries of Europe and North America were meeting to plan their approach to the ‘Earth Summit’ two years off; but one of the few who heard me was Maurice Strong, designated secretary general of the Summit. He was pleasantly surprised to hear someone suggest that perhaps gains for business did not necessarily have to be losses for the environment, and again, vice versa.

“My family later claimed, half-jokingly, that Maurice Strong invited himself to our house in Switzerland and would not leave until I had agreed to do his bidding. In truth, Maurice is far too shrewd and diplomatic to have to resort to such tactics. And what he wanted me to do attracted me. He wanted me to coordinate a message from business to his Summit and at the same time to spread the message of sustainability among business leaders. He was challenging me to put my efforts—and, as it turned out, some of my money—where my mouth had been in Bergen.”

Schmidheiny’s family was right. The trap door shut on doing Strong’s bidding, and regrettably for the asbestos billionaire, he’s headed for prison, while slippery-as-an-eel Maurice Strong is still at large in Communist China imposing sustainable development on the masses.

Judi McLeod

[Madrod]

Ol'Maury is hanging close to his Chinese buddies so when his heart or liver craps out,his buddies will screen the prisons and population to find the right lucky donor for him.

[styky]

Bo Xilai's ouster severs vital Canada-China link
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[Hodgson]

Ol'Maury is hanging close to his Chinese buddies so when his heart or liver craps out,his buddies will screen the prisons and population to find the right lucky donor for him.

Dudes 83 years old. He won't last much longer.

[OnlySaying]

The Globe and Mail has given Mo a forum to accuse our PM of being 'blinded by ideology'

Watch and weep

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[OnlySaying]

Maurice at the public trough again - free trip to Rio at our expense!

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Peter Foster - The National Post - June 21, 2012

The “failure” of Rio+20 is a cause for celebration, even if you can’t afford the champagne and foie gras that ecocrats served themselves as their hopes for “Sustainia” retreated into the policy fog. A mostly “B” list of government leaders (No Barack Obama. No David Cameron. No Stephen Harper. No Angela Merkel) was set to adopt a pablum-filled 283-point “vision” on Friday that was finalized before they arrived.

“[N]othing less than a disaster for the planet,” declared Nnimmo Bassey, Nigerian poet and chair of Friends of the Earth International. “[A]n epic failure,” claimed Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International executive director. ‘[A] colossal waste of time,” chimed in Jim Leape, international director-general of World Wildlife Fund.

An umbrella group of NGOs bemoaned the official text’s lack of mention of “planetary boundaries, tipping points or planetary carrying capacity,” the very shibboleth’s of radical environmentalism’s zero-sum thinking.

Significantly, the mother and father of sustainable development, Gro Harlem Brundtland and Maurice “Chairman Mo” Strong, carped — or should that be gro-aned and mo-aned — from the Rio sidelines. Ms. Brundtland was the figurehead of the 1987 Brundtland report, which spilled sustainable development all over the policy map, while Mr. Strong orchestrated the 1992 Rio conference, which the current 50,000-strong flop is intended to commemorate.

According to Ms. Brundtland, Rio+20’s failure is due to the eurozone crisis and the power of Tea Party climate deniers.

Mr. Strong was flown in from China at UN (that is, taxpayers’) expense to be regaled by a group of corporations on Monday as a “very special guest of honour.” Mr. Strong is less than happy at the cratering of his Stewie Griffin-style master plan to rule the world, which has always clashed rather alarmingly with his problems in steering small companies, not to mention his implication in the UN/Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.

One wonders if these aged eco-doomsters were embarrassed by support from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called for rich countries to eschew “materialist” desires and pursue “spiritual” development. Mr. Ahmadinejad also suggested that: “The collapse of the current atheistic order is reaching its time.”

Perhaps so — the social democratic replacement for God is certainly proving to have feet of clay in Europe — but it looks more than doubtful that Gaia’s green caliphate will be taking over, even if the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer, which looks down on Rio, was illuminated with green light for the conference.

The high priests of the new green world order crave cash, but calls for humanity to fork over for Gaia’s “services” are falling on deaf ears, and not just because of the global economy. One problem is that Gaia has no bank account. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, while ritually bemoaning the weakness of Rio+20’s outcome, declared this week that “Nature does not negotiate with human beings.” But then neither does she speak through a green self-elect. Gaia’s service fees would wind up in the coffers of the guys and gals who brought you not just oil-for-food, but a human rights system ruled by the world’s worst rights abusers, utterly corrupted climate science and peace in Syria.

The failure of Rio does not mean disregard for “The Environment.” Environmental protection is a branch of human protection. The environment has no value except for what it means to humans. The outrage that this observation will promote serves to prove the point. The environment can no more value itself than it can express outrage. Human development inevitably involves disturbance of land and potential pollution of air and water. The issue is never people versus the environment. It is the interests of some people vs. the interests of others. The question is one of balance, and that pollution should not be suffered without compensation. A bigger question is one of entirely bogus eco scares being manufactured as a rationale for payoffs to the very kleptocrats who are responsible for global poverty.

Canada should be justly proud of being in the vanguard of this return to balance both via its withdrawal from Kyoto and the environmental provisions of Bill C-38, which do not seek to trash safeguards — as alarmists have suggested — but to eliminate duplication, bureaucratic overreach, and the potential for sheer obstructionism.

Naturally, the threat of sustainable ideology is not over. Too many bureaucrats at the UN and national level are invested in it. Too much NGO fund raising relies on it.

Significantly, the official text talks of working with NGOs, despite their lack of political legitimacy. The text also still calls for more power for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). At least there is no mention of a World Environmental Organization, which would have been just as useless but would have threatened endless further negotiations on purpose, membership, funding, etc. etc.

There remain calls to tie down a set of Sustainable Development Goals, which should be good for another hundred reports and a dozen conferences. An Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is also on the drawing board. This will reportedly do for biodiversity what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) did for climate science: pervert it for political ends.

The Rio+20 text was originally sold as promoting “The Future We Want.” However, the “We” in question was always a self-selected group of UN bureaucrats, alarmist NGOs, corporate rent-seekers and main chancers whose interests were sharply at odds with those of ordinary people. Rio+20’s failure should be celebrated as The Future We Avoided.

[OnlySaying]

Why does Maurice get so much of an audience in Canada?

In days of yore dapperly dressed carny men sold cure-all medicine elixirs to gullible citizens attending circuses and county fairs.
Today it’s ecosocialism’s great granddaddy, C02 shyster Maurice Strong.
One rarely heard from Strong after he hightailed it to China in the aftermath of the United Nations Oil for Food scandal. A country, according to Strong’s own words, graced by his presence at least 50 percent of the time.
When Strong resurfaced in the Land of the Maple Leaf this week, it was to attend editorial board conferences of the Ottawa Citizen and The Globe and Mail, shilling for next month’s Rio de Janeiro global summit known as Rio+20. It was the first Rio Earth Summit led by Strong that cast a no-going-back spell on society with the soon to be forced advent of ‘sustainability’.
Following the Strong editorial board meeting,The Globe and Mail, Canada’s business newspaper of record, blared out headlines that “China bests Canada in tackling climate change”.
“China is outpacing Canada in determination to tackle climate change and rein in greenhouse gas emissions, says Maurice Strong, a long-time environmentalist and secretary-general of the first global Earth Summit 20 years ago.” (Globe and Mail, April 30, 2012).
In Maurice Strong doublespeak ‘determination’ to tackle climate change and rein in greenhouse gas emissions’, is the same thing as doing it, so where’s China’s Nobel?
Back for now to The Globe and Mail:
“Once a leader in the global environment movement, Canada is now seen as a serious laggard, with even emerging countries like China showing more commitment to costly adjustments to reduce emissions, the high profile businessman and diplomat said in an interview on Monday.”
How anyone could take seriously a man whose wife kept a “round-the-clock drum beat from Mother Earth” going while bigwigs like her hubby were changing the world during the first Rio de Janeiro global Earth Summit remains an unsolved mystery. But then again at today’s editorial board meetings, anything goes.
The National Post’s Peter Foster got it right: “Hilariously, the grand old man of global ecosocialism, Maurice Strong, suggested to The Globe and Mail this week that Mr. Harper might be blinded to the truth by “ideology”. Mr. Strong, presumably, sees himself as motivated only by objective science and universal compassion.”
That China is “besting” Canada in tackling climate change is not Strong’s only claim in the China Besting Category. Strong, who is (presumably) paid to work for Communist China and not his native born Canada, has made it perfectly clear he thinks everything in China is better than everything in both Canada and the United States.
An indication of his hefty influence in China can be found in the words of Nicholas Sonntag, a Canadian who heads up the Beijing office of CH2M Hill—one of the world’s leading environmental companies: “They’re taking a big risk,” Sonntag said of China back in 2003. “They’re determined to be the economic engine of the world. This is why Maurice is here—to help them think things through.”
One man helping an entire country “think things through” is a tall order.
For decades Maurice Strong, the man who would deny the masses air conditioning and meat on the dinner table, has been boasting that China would soon replace the United States as the world superpower.
Inching along his dreams of that happy day, Strong once joined up with billionaire George Soros to sink millions of dollars into a Communist China automaker that manufactured the “Chery”.
Strong and Soros aimed to decimate Ford, Chrysler and GM by flooding the U.S. market with cheapo Cherys on a 2007 timeline, and though Chery failed, the rest as they say, is history.
Why is it that Maurice Strong is given instant access to the board rooms of prominent Canadian newspapers?
At one time being so openly anti-Canadian and anti-American would be regarded as treasonous.
But treason takes a back seat when there’s so much money to be made on the manufactured lies sustaining all things C02.