By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--January 10, 2020
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"The Ten Commandments are out of date. They will be replaced by the 18 principles of the Earth Charter”, Moses Gorbachev proclaimed. (CFP) “Speaking through an interpreter, at a press conference, Gorbachev spoke candidly abut his hope for the implementation of the Earth Charter, which had been drafted by Maurice Strong, and ably supported by Stephen Rockefeller. “Apparently, at the first State of the World Forum, Gorbachev had stated that the new world order would be achieved ‘step by step, stone by stone.’ "’Experience in various countries is being gathered,’ he said. "The advanced countries should take advantage of the new openness to work with others, and should share their technological expertise with the world’s population, thus working toward a global village. "'What model (of one-world government) are we pursuing?’ he was asked. "'The model will be a form of democracy or parliamentary body. There are many forms of democracy. The Communist idea of Utopia was one and we all know the result of that experiment,’ he said. "’Now, the West is trying to impose Western values and religion on the whole world. We should not impose a blueprint on the world (except, of course, for the Earth Charter-Edit).
"'We have come to a point where man’s intervention in nature cannot continue. Within 40 years at the latest (he said) changes in the biosphere will be irreversible. Nature has a mechanism for self-regulation. We cannot change this. We can only incorporate ourselves, restrict the activities that interfere with this, or nature will have to live without us. We must restrict or limit our consumption and reassess our way of life. "'Until now we had the Ten Commandments; now we have a new set of ‘ecological commandments," the Earth Charter. "'It is a powerful document,’ said Gorbachev, ‘that will express a consensus toward common goals. Its importance will come from the authority from which it derives… "In Rio, he urged the press to publicize this. Now, five years later in Johannesburg, it has moved forward into the Chairman’s Draft Political Declaration! "The second draft of the Charter referred to the Earth as our Mother, in terms that one outspoken delegate called ‘a love letter to our mom’.The Earth Charter—still endorsed by the United Nations—was not born in an over-the-top Hollywood movie, but is the very heart of Climate Change in real life.
''The Earth Charter has come a long way. It came to life as a document, on letter-sized paper, brought down by hand, from the 23rd floor of the Sheraton Hotel on Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, in 1997 by Gorbachev and company. Today it is a document on glossy 14x17 paper, ensconced in a gilt-covered ‘Ark of Hope’, made of cypress, decorated by Vermont artists, and borne into a conference at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, is now immortalized in the Chairman’s Draft Political Declaration. (CFP)To this day, the Earth Charter is still being carted in the gilt-covered ‘Ark of Hope’ into public schools by UN employees. Meanwhile, you don’t have to be crazy to pray to a candle image of Greta dressed in the 2000-year old garments of Jesus and Mary, or to believe in The Earth Charter and its ‘Ark of Hope’, but just rabid about God’s Creation about to come to an end and just plain stupid—for which there is no known cure.
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