"Restructuring" isn't the right word. "Elimination" is the right word. The true purpose of environmentalism is the destruction of free-market capitalism and the imposing of Socialism on the nations of the world. Having fought a long Cold War after World War II, Russia's brand of Socialism--i.e., Communism--came crashing down along with the Berlin Wall, proving to anyone with any common sense that the Socialist economic system, based on the theory of class warfare, does not work. The Europeans and others have nevertheless failed to notice.

On August 2, a letter was sent to President Bush, signed by 31 men and women who devote their lives to the defense of liberty here at home and throughout the world. I was one of those who signed the letter. It concerned the forthcoming UN Johannesbirg Summit.

Brought together by Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the letter began by applauding President Bush's decision not to attend the Johannesburg Summit in person. The letter stated:

"Even more than the Earth Summit in 1992, the Johannesburg Summit will provide a global media stage for many of the most irresponsi- ble and destructive elements involved in critical international economic and environmental issues."

The letter stated further:

We also strongly support your opposition to signing new interna- tional environmental treaties or creating new international organ- izations at the Johannesburg Summit. In our view, the worst pos- sible outcome at Johannesburg would be taking any steps toward creating a World Environmental Organization, as the European Union has suggested."

The forthcoming Summit is based on the foundations put in place in Rio, now referred to as Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is indeed quite an agenda. It is a plan for global governance.

That is why the Johannesburg Summit is so important to the forces supporting it. The Summit is the essential instrument for those who would impose a one world government on the United States of America and on all other nations.

The Jonannesburg Summit will send up a great hue and cry over the failure of Third- World, or undeveloped, nations to make any progress. The reason is obvious to every- one. The undeveloped nations are in the grip of despots and socialist bureaucrats and politicians, all of whom have the sole purpose of looting these countries' wealth. The undeveloped nations thus remain undeveloped due to corruption and criminality of every description, despite having natural resources that capitalism would turn into employment and wealth for these nations' citizens.

As the August 2 letter to the President correctly points out,

"World Bank studies have concluded that there is a direct correla- tion between national prosperity and environmental quality and that environmental conditions improve rapidly as poor nations become wealthier."

You can count on the Liberal mainstream media to blare forth the lies that will come from the Johannesburg Summit. It remains fot the U.S.A. to take the lead to end the "global warming" myth and to trumpet the real answer to the world's needs--namely, the further spread of competitive capitalism, constitutional democracy, national sovereignty, and liberty. The world needs stable governments and free markets operating under the rule of law.

The objective of the Johannesburg Summit is power, exercised under the aegis of a single global government and administered by unelected socialist bureaucrats operating from behind the curtain of the United Nations.

Alan Caruba is the founder of rhe National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs," at www.anxietycenter.com, the website maintained by the National Anxiety Center. He is also the author of A POCKET GUIDE TO MILITANT ISLAM and THE UNITED NATIONS VERSUS THE UNITED STATES.

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