By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--November 21, 2012
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“U.N. Agenda 21 has been in the works for decades, spearheaded by environmentalists, foreign individuals, third world countries, and non-profit organizations around the world. In the name of protecting the environment, socialist global governance has been quietly implemented at all levels of government via government grants, public-private partnerships, and EPA regulations involving use of land and water, affecting every facet of our lives. Mandating population re-distribution in the name of biodiversity, re-educating our youth into sustainable everything, green jobs, green buildings, green cars, green energy, urban sprawl control, government bureaucrats from the United Nations and our own elected representatives are going to rezone us, resettle us, reduce our numbers, and tax us into the sustainable community described in the Wildlands Project Map. Forcing us out of cars, into bike paths, light rail, walkways, greenbelts, ever more conservation areas forbidden to humans, urban boundary zones, and high-density areas, U.N. Agenda 21’s 40 chapters will limit the behavior of individuals, organizations, and companies, covering everything we do in life. U.N. Agenda 21 has been implemented administratively with help from ICLEI and little Congressional debate or involvement. Some of the provisions of U.N. Agenda 21 have been included in other laws passed. Presidential executive orders are forcing its implementation at the national level. Our sovereignty is at stake. We must stop U.N. Agenda 21 before it is too late. Every chapter of it violates our Constitution.”Children love horror stories told by their elders and the ‘Rewilding” portion of Agenda 21 is one horror story you can tell them that is absolutely true. As CFP columnist Kelly O’Connell wrote last August, “”re-wilding--or returning huge tracts of land to pristine status while restoring all former animal groups--is one of the most dramatically anti-human ideas ever conceived.” A good lesson for children under the heading “Good Guys, Bad Guys” should run chills down the spine. United Nations officials--who brand all asking pointed questions about Agenda 21 as “conspiracy theorists”--pay for scientists in labs to reintroduce large carnivores onto the North American continent, Europe and elsewhere. This is at the heart of their so called ‘conservation’ strategy. “Wolves, cougars, lynx, wolverines, grizzly and black bears, jaguars, sea otters, and other top carnivores need restoration throughout North America in ecologically effective densities in their natural ranges where suitable habitat remains or can be restored.” (Kelly O’Connell, Aug. 7, 2012). “Without the goal of rewilding for large areas with large carnivores, we are closing our eyes to what conservation really means--and demands.”
Dozens of megafauna (large animals over 100 pounds) -- such as giant tortoises, horses, elephants, and cheetah--went extinct in North America13,000 years ago during the end of the Pleistocene. As is the case today in Africa and Asia, these megafauna likely played keystone ecological roles via predation, herbivory, and other processes. What are the consequences of losing such important components of America's natural heritage? In The American Naturalist, 12 scientists provide a detailed proposal for the restoration of North America's lost megafauna. Using the same species from different locales or closely related species as analogs, their project "Pleistocene Rewilding" is conceived as carefully managed experiments in an attempt to learn about and partially restore important natural processes to North American ecosystems present for millennia until humans played a significant role in their demise 13,000 years ago.As to the cloning of extinct magafauna, one writer says this--The Mammoth in Glen Canyon:
French explorer Bernard Buigues and Larry Agenbroad, Northern Arizona University hope that Jarkov Wooly Mammoth sitting inside a 23-ton block of ice will contain flesh sample with some perfectly preserved DNA. That and some proven cloning technology could resurrect a long-gone species. What Buigues and his team would do is something similar to the process that created the famous sheep Dolly: extracting the nucleus of one adult mammoth cell and inserting it into an empty egg cell. The embryo would then be implanted in the uterus of an Asian elephant, the mammoth's closest living relative, a surrogate mother that would gestate it as its own but without transferring to the baby any of the elephant's genes.
The Wildlands Project goal is to set aside approximately 50% of the North American continent (Turtle Island) as "wild land" for the preservation of biological diversity.
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