A County Disservice

As of Tuesday, March 13, 2012

In February the Moore County Commissioners passed a resolution opposing United Nations Agenda 21. Never heard of U.N. Agenda 21? Neither had I, so I looked it up.

Apparently it is a nonbinding resolution endorsed by 178 countries in 1992. It encourages nations to develop sustainably, minimizing negative impacts to the environment, while expressly recognizing the rights of individuals to a “healthy and productive life” and the rights of individual governments to “exploit their own resources pursuant to their own policies.”

The Moore County Commissioners somehow interpret it as an insidious socialist plot to take away “the American way of life of private ownership, single family homes, private car ownership, and privately owned farms.”

Where did the need for the Moore County resolution come from? It is being pushed by a national group with an anti-environmental agenda. While this resolution could be dismissed as a harmless play for political points, it could have negative consequences for our county.

The resolution states that “U.N. Agenda 21 is being covertly pushed into local communities through sustainable development policies such as Smart Growth … Regional Visioning Projects and other Green projects.” There are several homegrown organizations working hard to see that Moore County’s rapid growth does not harm the natural amenities that draw people to this region.

If this ill-advised and unnecessary resolution undermines the work of these groups, Moore County will be the poorer for it.

The Moore County Commissioners have done our county a disservice by buying into this baseless conspiracy theory.

Jeff Marcus

Pinehurst

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ProudYankee 1 year, 2 months ago

Between this and the "Ammendment One" they are getting involved in, it is quite obvious the commishioners are trying to appeal to the radical right fringe of the republican party. They should be drummed out of office for wasting time stoking the fires of fear and bigotry, instead of doing productive business for the county. Truely a disgrace.

JimHeim 1 year, 2 months ago

Whenever I hear someone complain about twenty-year-old Agenda 21, I know I'm dealing with someone who is not coping well with reality. It's sad to see elected officials slipping into Fantasy Land. Worse, they're taking us with them.

deidretg 1 year, 2 months ago

@"The Moore County Commissioners somehow interpret it as an insidious socialist plot to take away “the American way of life of private ownership, single family homes, private car ownership, and privately owned farms.” This is just another orchestrated smokescreen by that crowd in Carthage to appear all about the American Flag and Mom's Apple Pie in an election year, all the while knowing that a whole bunch of voters in this county have not forgotten for a minute that absolute slap in the face "That Day Has Past" to a whole bunch of Moore County citizens who took time out of their busy personal lives to go to Carthage and beg "The Powers That Be" for the right to vote on a $55,200,000 boondoggle rather than having it shoved down their throats by force. Payday is coming, boys, at the ballot box and any feeble attempt by you boys to get all God and Country on us will be forever overwhelmed by your calculated, perposeful denial of one of America's greatest rights, THE RIGHT TO VOTE!!