What the U.N. is Teaching Our Children About the Environment
By Cathie Adams
"Life on our planet - our only home - is in big trouble. Many creatures are dying out completely and it's almost all because of what people are doing. So far as the rest of life is concerned, humans are the worst disaster to hit this planet since a massive fireball 66 million years ago.” (http://tiki.oneworld.net)
Imagine being an elementary school student and being told that “our only home is in big trouble” and that “it’s almost all because of what people are doing.” You’d be afraid!
Fear is used by the United Nations to manipulate not only our children’s behavior, but also to teach them to influence their parents concerning environmentally extreme notions.
It is undoubtedly why children are taught to capitalize the first letter of “Earth.” Unlike when you and I grew up, our children are being taught to focus on the “Earth,” rather than upon the Creator of the earth.
Furthermore, radical environmentalists are teaching our children that governments will have to “ration” energy; otherwise, rich and powerful people will get what they want, while most people on the planet will get nothing. The “Tiki.oneworld” website calls rationing “Domestic Tradable Quotas.”
Where do these silly notions originate? Many of them come from United Nations environmental treaties such as the Biodiversity Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol that deals with global warming, or the Desertification Treaty. The U.N.’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, writes curriculum to teach them to our children, and Presidential Executive Orders are often used to implement parts of the treaties, regardless of whether the U.S. Senate ratifies them.
There is no rug big enough to sweep the desert under, is the title of a comic-styled booklet produced by the U.N. as part of its U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, a treaty that went into effect in December 1996, and was ratified by the U.S. Senate along with 33 other treaties - without a debate, and almost without notice, in 2000.
The U.N. defines desertification as “land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities.” The purpose of the treaty is “to help people of the drylands shoulder the risk of change to more sustainable practices,” which it claims is necessary because “desertification contributes to food insecurity, economic hardship, poverty and political unrest.”
The main character in the cartoon is a Wolf that looks down from a high green cliff at a farm that is colored in yellows and oranges with dust clouds all around it to highlight its aridness. “What a disaster!” declares the Wolf.
Approaching the farm, the Wolf meets a Golfer depicted as a potato-head character. The Wolf asks, “Can’t you see what a state this place is in?” The Golfer responds, “What state? I water the grass every four hours! What’s the problem?”
After the confrontation, the Golfer comments, “H***! I just don’t understand these wolves.”
The continuing story evolves around the Greedy Golfer as it discusses worthy programs such as natural fertilizers, crop rotation, planting trees to keep the topsoil from blowing away, rotating grazing animals so that pastures are not over-grazed, catching rain water, building dams and protecting drinking water sources.
But the cartoon describes the Greedy Golfer as only caring about his golf course. When the Golfer asks for a tree to be removed because “it’s right between my ball and the eighteenth hole!” he is picked up by the Forest-Keeper and thrown off his course, as the Wolf looks on and chuckles.
In the end of the story, the Greedy Golfer gives up golf in exchange for picking daisies and giving them to a female potato head figure.
The moral of this story is more about depicting the Greedy Golfer as one of those rich and powerful people who gets what he wants while most people on the planet get nothing, rather than teaching good farming practices. The story’s main purpose is to change the behavior of the Greedy Golfer.
What will children learn from this story? If daddy is a golfer, then he’s a rich and powerful person who gets what he wants while most people on the planet get nothing. Daddy is a Greedy Golfer!
Our government should not encourage U.N. influence that frightens and undermines our relationships with our children, yet our tax dollars do just that, by funding the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO.
Former President Regan removed the U.S. from the UNESCO in 1984, but President George W. Bush re-entered it in 2003. Of the five billion annually the U.S. donates to the U.N., nearly $100 million goes to UNESCO.
Let’s ask the 2008 U.S. Presidential candidates and our Congressmen to get the U.N. out of our schools by again removing the U.S. from UNESCO.
Cathie Adams is President of Texas Eagle Forum, and was a speaker at the 8th Annual Freedom21 Conference in Dallas last week.
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