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Wednesday, June 26

Annalee Newitz: Death-Proofing / Designing Future Cities – Agenda 21-Style Solutions - Part III


by Mark A. Cohen

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Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz


Continued from last week’s post.



You may only live here…and not there - because ‘we’ say so…
You may only live here…not there, because ‘we’ say so…


On the popular call-in program, Washington Journal, host Greta Brawner asked guest Annalee Newitz on June 5, 2013, “What is the role of government in safeguarding the cities…preventing the mass extinction of urban areas?” As President Obama has said, Annalee replied that we must invest in research to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels and heavily polluting materials (not a bad long-term goal, by the way - if the investment doesn’t break the bank). But she also wants governments to use ‘better’ city planning – as laid out in great detail by the authors of the United Nations’ Agenda 21. Why is that scary? Partly because those who have hijacked the environmental movement have specified how large your home should be (you don’t need so much room, you glutton!) and exactly how much lighting is “just enough.” How dare they?




To protect ‘biodiversity,’ you may not leave your city.
To protect ‘biodiversity,’ you may not leave your city.


One way for humans to survive, Annalee says, is for them to move underground. Why would that happen? She uses arguments employed largely by the left. Radiation disasters, no doubt from an evil nuclear power (the U.S.!), or caused by right-wing war (how can war be conservative?), or even an industrial accident (those evil corporations)! Gamma rays from a nearby star (also proposed), although low, sounded like a higher probability to me.




Do your descendants a favor.
Do your descendants a favor.


Newitz admitted that high-density areas leave open the possibilities for pandemic diseases. The fix? In that case, everyone must get vaccinated. Not only must they do this for themselves, they must do so for their neighbors. Sounds like communitarianism to me. One caller actually brought that up, but she pooh-poohed it. Annalee, who probably means well, also said that these engineered cities need to be social organisms. They would care for the people in them, right down to jobs, health, and feeding them. Can anyone say, “nanny state?” As the Agenda 21 planners say, Annalee repeated that these cities will need to have farms (not suburbs) around them. She even uses the Agenda 21 terms, “urban sprawl” to describe suburbia, and “city centre” to direct us to what we now call the downtown. In addition, these high-density areas would contain skyscraper farms containing solar-powered greenhouses, some with every floor this way. Paid for, how?




Save mankind from tyranny.
Save mankind from tyranny.


Out of the way baboons, the U.N. knows a better way. Cities need to be flexible. Have to. This is a phrase, like must, used by those who insist on a solution. Generally, it’s their way – or the highway… Living underground sounds scary, but, don’t worry, earth-sheep! Annalee Newitz says that even though your cities would have vines everywhere and scarred bridges (from smart, self-healing materials, of course!) on the outside, your high-tech stuff, like the Internet and your beloved cell phones would still be there, inside. (Don’t believe for a second that those tyrants would be benevolent dictators.) Her book is titled, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember – How Humans will Survive a Mass Extinction. What a strange dream…unless we let the U.N. and the bullies push this horror on us. In that case, consign your descendants to a life they want them to live.




ANTI-AGENDA 21 WEB SITES



Democrats Against Agenda 21



Stopping the UN in the Southwest



Please refer to my previous posts related to U.N. Agenda 21:

From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #1, 2/28/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #2, 3/27/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #3, 4/17/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #4, 7/10/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #5, 10/30/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #6, 12/04/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #7, 01/08/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #8, 06/12/13



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #9, 06/18/13



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Mark A. Cohen is currently seeking representation for his memoir, From The Left to the Right.



Mark A. Cohen is a member of and helps run the Parker Writers Group (Check out their Facebook page here)



Or, see the Parker Writers Group Web page here



Mark A. Cohen’s web site, http://www.mark-cohen.com, is now under construction.



Mark A. Cohen is a member of the Castle Rock Writers (Check out their Facebook page here) Their web page, www.castlerockwriters.com, will also take you to the Facebook page until the web page is completed.



Mark A. Cohen currently sits on the committee which hosted the previous Castle Rock Writers Conference on October 13, 2012. He is currently their Vice-Treasurer. The group, whose motto is Rock Solid Writing, is seeking their 501c3.



Please save the date: Castle Rock Writers will hold the Castle Rock Writers Conference on Saturday, November 23, 2013, at the Douglas County Events Center in Castle Rock, Colorado. Please stay tuned for further information.



Mark A. Cohen will soon be a published author, as the Castle Rock Writers are under contract to write and publish The Chronicles of Douglas County, Colorado, in 2014.



Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 20 minutes at the Coffee4Conservatives meeting at the Firehouse on State Road 83, in Franktown, CO, on Oct. 21, 2012.



Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 30 minutes at the Douglas County Republicans’ First Friday Breakfast in Parker, CO, held at The War Horse Inn, on Dec. 2, 2011.



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Tuesday, June 18

Annalee Newitz: Death-Proofing / Designing Future Cities – Yes, It’s Agenda 21 - Part II


by Mark A. Cohen

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Continued from last week’s post.



Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz


Annalee Newitz wrote a book about the future called, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember. Optimistic about our survival, the author, according to reviews, proposes ways we can overcome a mass extinction. That’s better than fine. You might not believe this, but I applaud those who think about the years to come and propose solutions.




Scatter, Adapt, Remember
Scatter, Adapt, Remember


However, Newitz’ June 5, 2013 Washington Journal appearance revealed a bit more. She echoed many of the plans the United Nations has for the world’s population. If they could only control you, they would solve the world’s largest environmental issues, including: overpopulation, hunger, global warming (CO2 poisoning), and species extinctions. The world would be such a better place if unimportant and irrelevant you had no say in its future… Yikes, if only I were making this up! Welcome to U.N. Agenda 21. (I dare you to Google “Agenda 21” – go ahead. However, it is not really voluntary, as many claim. Pay special attention to how they want to change consumption patterns… but I digress…)




io9.com
io9.com


Annalee’s website is: io9.com. As they say on Red Eye, check it out, check-it-outers. With host Greta Browner, Newitz discussed the biological city, mentioned the bio and alternative fuels, “that might be grown, in and around cities.” 50 years from now – but only if we use bio materials – “cities would look a lot [like] the way they do now.” (What if we don’t use bio materials?) She speculated that unsafe bridges would heal themselves by producing scar material. I don’t see how that could make a structure safer, but that’s just me, I guess. Cities 150 years out might be covered in vines or algae. (Remember President Obama’s comment about algae?) These genetically modified plants would provide fuel, food, water purification, and lighting. So, instead of burning nasty “fossil fuel to have your lights on at night, you might just have algae that glows.” She says the science is here. Really? Then why is no one using it?



Stay tuned for part III, here next week.




ANTI-AGENDA 21 WEB SITES



Democrats Against Agenda 21



Stopping the UN in the Southwest



Please refer to my own previous posts related to U.N. Agenda 21:



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #1, 2/28/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #2, 3/27/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #3, 4/17/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #4, 7/10/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #5, 10/30/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #6, 12/04/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #7, 01/08/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #8, 06/12/13



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Mark A. Cohen is currently seeking representation for his memoir, From The Left to the Right.



Mark A. Cohen is a member of and helps run the Parker Writers Group (Check out their Facebook page here)



Or, see the Parker Writers Group Web page here



Mark A. Cohen’s web site, http://www.mark-cohen.com, is now under construction.



Mark A. Cohen is a member of the Castle Rock Writers (Check out their Facebook page here) Their web page, www.castlerockwriters.com, will also take you to the Facebook page until the web page is completed.



Mark A. Cohen currently sits on the committee which hosted the previous Castle Rock Writers Conference on October 13, 2012. He is currently their Vice-Treasurer. The group, whose motto is Rock Solid Writing, is seeking their 501c3.



Please save the date: Castle Rock Writers will hold the Castle Rock Writers Conference on Saturday, November 23, 2013, at the Douglas County Events Center in Castle Rock, Colorado. Please stay tuned for further information.



Mark A. Cohen will soon be a published author, as the Castle Rock Writers are under contract to write and publish The Chronicles of Douglas County, Colorado, in 2014.



Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 20 minutes at the Coffee4Conservatives meeting at the Firehouse on State Road 83, in Franktown, CO, on Oct. 21, 2012.



Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 30 minutes at the Douglas County Republicans’ First Friday Breakfast in Parker, CO, held at The War Horse Inn, on Dec. 2, 2011.



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Wednesday, June 12

Annalee Newitz: Death-Proofing / Designing Future Cities – U.N. Agenda 21 Reborn


by Mark A. Cohen

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Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz wrote an article recently, published in Discover Magazine and partly found online (you have to pay to see it all), about the future of cities. She appeared on Washington Journal on June 5, 2013, to speak about it. Newitz doesn’t talk about traditional growth, however. Annalee says, “…we’ll probably convert urban spaces into biological organisms.” No, these are not edible cities, but places where bridges repair themselves and show evidence of healing through scarring. “The biological city could provide us with food and energy security for millennia to come.” Her article is entitled, How to Death-Proof the Cities of the Future. It’s based on her book, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember – How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction. Ms. Newitz speculates that “the whole planet may be about to enter a new phase of mass extinction,” and most of these have been caused by climate change. So, here we go again… “The evidence is mounting…” she says. What evidence? Climate change (I just said that!), of course, which is the environmentalists’ new, more politically correct term for man-made Global Warming. More evidence for you, she says, is that so many species went extinct over the last 200 years. I’m not making this up!




Learning about Agenda 21
Learning about Agenda 21

Newitz, a likeable personality, is a futurist to be sure, and is generally thoughtful when it comes to mankind's future. However, with regard to worldly disasters she appears in almost every way to support the United Nation's Agenda 21, the environmentalist's master plan for changing human society into a single communitarian state. Keywords are "sustainable" and "smart," among others. Listen for them.




Agenda 21 – The Trojan Horse
Agenda 21 – The Trojan Horse

”Cities are a place where most people will be living over the next, coming centuries...” Environmentalists (and others) are rooting for this. The U.N. estimates that by 2050, 67% of the world’s populations will be living in cities.” Remember, Agenda 21, comes from the U.N. They created this rigid plan for the 21st Century in the late 1980’s, for your descendants to live where the rule-makers want them to live – in cities, where they can be more easily manipulated and controlled. It must be our immediate goal to focus on cities, she says, “if we want to see the future of humanity progress.” Like most proponents of Agenda 21 and the new, radical environmental movement, she seems to think that if we don’t force people into cities against their will, we will regress, and, as we know, that simply is not true.




The city is a process, according to Annalee Newitz.
The city is a process, according to Annalee Newitz.

Ms. Newitz then concludes, as do urban planners through Agenda 21, that “we need to be pushing our cities toward being more survivable.” This means preparedness, such as for natural disasters. That sounds okay. But then she tells us we must change the materials we make cities out of, like self-healing, or smart materials. As you recall, Agenda 21 calls for more smart growth. It took less than four minutes for her to utter the word, “sustainable,” the mainstay of Agenda 21.




 Agenda 21 – Your descendants will live where WE say…
Agenda 21 – Your descendants will live where WE say…


ANTI-AGENDA 21 WEB SITES



Democrats Against Agenda 21



Stopping the UN in the Southwest



Please refer to my previous posts related to U.N. Agenda 21:



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #1, 2/28/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #2, 3/27/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #3, 4/17/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #4, 7/10/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #5, 10/30/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #6, 12/04/12



From the Left to the Right - Agenda 21 Post #7, 01/08/12



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Mark A. Cohen is currently seeking representation for his memoir, From The Left to the Right.



Mark A. Cohen is a member of and helps run the Parker Writers Group (Check out their Facebook page here)



Or, see the Parker Writers Group Web page here



Mark A. Cohen’s web site, http://www.mark-cohen.com, is now under construction.



Mark A. Cohen is a member of the Castle Rock Writers (Check out their Facebook page here) Their web page, www.castlerockwriters.com, will also take you to the Facebook page until the web page is completed.



Mark A. Cohen currently sits on the committee which hosted the previous Castle Rock Writers Conference, on October 13, 2012. He is currently their Vice-Treasurer. The group, whose motto is Rock Solid Writing, is seeking their 501c3.



Please save the date: Castle Rock Writers will hold the Castle Rock Writers Conference on Saturday, November 23, 2013, at the Douglas County Events Center in Castle Rock, Colorado. Please stay tuned for further information.



Mark A. Cohen will soon be a published author, as the Castle Rock Writers are under contract to write and publish The Chronicles of Douglas County, Colorado, in 2014.



Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 20 minutes at the Coffee4Conservatives meeting at the Firehouse on State Road 83, in Franktown, CO, on Oct. 21, 2012.



Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 30 minutes at the Douglas County Republicans’ First Friday Breakfast in Parker, CO, held at The War Horse Inn, on Dec. 2, 2011.



Click on the logo below to get to the main CBC site:



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Or, you can find From the Left to the Right on Conservative Blogs Central (it’s now on page 3) by clicking this text.



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Tuesday, July 10

U.N.’s Agenda For the 21st Century – Very Interesting, But Disturbing


by Mark A. Cohen


I'm no expert on the transparent and gigantic U.N. Agenda 21 movement yet, but from my research so far, it sounds like a wonderful idea. Save the world for future generations, they say. How can anyone argue with that? However, while reading ICLEI and many other documents supporting the idea of changing the world for the benefit of those not yet born, I feel sick, and I think I now know why.



Carbon dioxide, this movement says, is a poison and must be purged from our environment via incredible reduction goals with no regard to how this is to be done. It features a subtle push to indoctrinate our descendants into a supreme worship of the United Nations and its sustainability culture – over and above patriotism for one's own country. The Agenda for the 21st century, like many far-left radicals, assaults superior nations' successes as evil, militaristic and violent, material, and too focused upon production and consumption. It counts on local governments and their power to suggest in detail, how to rearrange society and its infrastructure, for what they believe is in the best interests of mankind. Those most convinced of business' propensity to pollute must ask, "Who the heck are these people, what is at the heart of their desires, and why do they know best?" In other words, "They are not the boss of me," and, "Who put them in charge?"



The environmentalists believe in empowering the U.N. as a global government, over-regulating and threatening personal freedoms (such as property rights) for the relentless purpose of reducing earth's carbon footprint. Sorry, I pledged my allegiance to America, and, much as I love her, not to Mother Earth. I think that carbon dioxide is a gas and not a threat, and that global warming is not man-made, but a blip in the climactic ups and downs of this planet.



This movement is socialist in nature, favoring in every respect, the community over the individual. For that alone I must oppose it – although I assert that their goal, of maintaining the earth for the future - is a respectable one. We hear the lie every day: Conservatives support dirtier air and water. No, we don't. But we don't like to be forced into doing anything, and as Americans, we all like our freedoms and choose over and over again to protect them.



Many on the right call Agenda 21 a conspiracy and a power-grab, but, although it might be both, I choose to resist those temptations - at least for now. I'll try to dig deeper into Agenda 21 and report back to you what I find. If you find yourself curious, please check out the Agenda 21 links provided in this blog post. Each one will link to others. The amount of information on the web is enormous, so a handful of links will get you started. After you get started, Google: Sustainability [your city], [your state] and if they are implementing or plan to implement Agenda 21 in your area soon, you will find out.




AGENDA 21 LINKS:



Video: Agenda 21 explained (you may not agree with everything in this video)

Documentation:
The Earth Charter

Robert Muller

Report on Agenda 21

agenda21today.com

From The Left to the Right (Agenda 21, post #1)

From The Left to the Right (Agenda 21, post #2)

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Mark A. Cohen is currently seeking representation for his memoir, From The Left to the Right.



Mark A. Cohen is a member of and helps run the Parker Writers Group



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Mark A. Cohen currently sits on the committee which will host the 2012 Castle Rock Writers Conference.



Mark A. Cohen spoke for about 30 minutes at the Douglas County Republicans’ First Friday Breakfast in Parker, CO, held at The War Horse Inn, on Dec. 2, 2011. He will speak this summer, but these speeches are, as yet, unscheduled.



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