Earth Charter: Mother Earth Meets Big Brother

Beneath the rhetoric of survival, behind the Sierra Club calendars, beyond the movie-star appeals, lies a full-fledged ideology — an ideology every bit as powerful as Marxism and every bit as dangerous to individual freedom and human happiness. Like Marxism, it appeals to seemingly noble instincts: the longing for beauty, for harmony, for peace. It is the green road to serfdom.

The Earth Charter provides the organizational text for a coalition of international bureaucrats and environmental activists to do nothing less than change the way humanity does business. The first call for an international treaty on the environment came from the 1983 World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the “Brundtland Commission.” The two major accomplishments of the Commission were to identify the environment as a popular issue that lends itself to crisis resolution measures, and to link environmental issues with social concerns and personal and national security.

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