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Sustainable Communities: Under Construction Everywhere

By Henry Lamb, 2/24/2003 –

Sustainable communities will ensure that individuals and nations pursue the future o­nly along the paths deemed "sustainable" by those self-appointed bureaucrats who think they know what is best for the world. [California’s Senate Bill SB 375 "Sustainable Communities Strategy" of 2008 follows this principle.]

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Sustainable Development

What is “Unsustainable”?

By Freedom Advocates, 2/23/2003 –

The Global Biodiversity Assessment report directed by the United Nations Environment Programe (UNEP) calls for urgent action to reverse unsustainable effects on global biodiversity. The report is based on the false premise that “Population growth has exceeded the capacity of the biosphere.” In order to understand what is sustainable, one must understand what is not sustainable…

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Sustainable Development in Santa Cruz County and Across the Country

By Nick Peros, 2/20/2003 – If there is a bedrock principle upon which our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our nation was constructed, it is this: "government is empowered by the Consent of the governed"… There are people among us in Santa Cruz County and other portions of the United States and other nations that believe this method of public policy development is obsolete.

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Smart Growth - Planning

“Smart Growth” is “Agenda 21”

By Henry Lamb, 2/20/2003 –

From one end of the country to the other, "Smart Growth" has become the politically-correct buzz-word to mask a variety of policy initiatives designed to bring about sustainable development of sustainable communities that will produce sustainable lifestyles – as determined by the authors and promoters of Agenda 21… Anything less is a major erosion of the first principle of freedom: legitimate government is empowered by the consent of the governed – not by the recommendations of Agenda 21, the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, or by the "visions" on non-elected professionals, no matter how well-meaning they may be.

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