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Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21 Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21 In contrast to the unalienable rights protected in America's founding documents, the United Nations' Charter and the Declaration of Human Rights are based on a very different idea: rights are granted and rescinded by men. The Sustainable Development political agenda originates in the founding documents of the United Nations. This isn't surprising, since the myriad countries represented in the drafting of Agenda 21 have widely divergent forms of government, and must have a point of agreement (a "least common denominator") to rally around — and the U.N. Charter provides that point. However, for progress to be made in implementing Sustainable Development in the United States, unalienable rights such as the right to property must be eroded, attacked, and struck down altogether.$' 9 Implementing Sustainable Development The authors of Agenda 21 have said it will affect every area of life, grouped according to three objectives: Equity, Economy, and Environment (known commonly as the "3 Es"). By defining these terms vaguely, a litany of abuses have resulted. Furthermore, by rubber-stamping pre -conceived plans, using manipulative "visioning" sessions to garner the appearance of public buy -in, and acquiring grants from sources with questionable motives, the entire process of implementing Sustainable Development policies is suspect. 8. Nullification of the right to the reasonable use of one's property affects by extension the right to private action and the freedom of expression. Shaw, Michael, What is Private Property? Liberty Garden (2003). 9. Heywood, V.H. (ed.). Global Biodiversity Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1995): 767, 782. This document likewise condemns "inappropriate social structures" (p 763), golf courses (p 970), and the attitudes toward nature found in "Judeo-Christian- Islamic religions" (pp 766, 838). SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Equity: Using the Law to Restructure Human Nature The authors of the Sustainable Development action plan recognized that their environmental and economic objectives, and the corresponding transformation of the American system of equal justice to a system of "social" justice, are radically divergent from the views and objectives of the average person. Therefore, in order to achieve their objectives, they call for a shift in attitudes that can be seen in the educational programs developed by its proponents. This is the premise of Sustainable Development: That individual human wants, needs and desires are to be conformed to the views and dictates of the community (Communitarianism). Harvey Ruvin, Vice Chair of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and Clerk of the Circuit and County Court in Miami -Dade County, Florida has said, "individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective" in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.1° 10. Peros, Joan, unpublished report, UNCED Rio+10 Summit — Johannesburg, South Africa (2002).