SUSTAINABLE WASHINGTON

Enter the Governor’s “Sustainable Washington”.  We must become “sustainable,” says he.  In fact, the governor was presented an award reflecting that Washington state is the 5^th most sustainable state in the union, but “we can never define precisely what ‘sustainable’ means.  We have to discover – and invent- its meaning as time passes,” he states.  Terms like “conflict resolution” are used to “forge a sense of community.”  Examples of a “sustainable” Washington is a state where “single occupancy vehicles” will be gone, and people will be “living in smaller communities," touts the governor’s website.  Nebulous, meaningless terms are used.  But words do have meanings. We can see the meaning of “sustainability” by learning what the UN folks tell us what is NOT sustainable.

Here’s what Maurice Strong, socialist, senior adviser to the Commission on Global Governance and driving force behind the concept of “sustainability”, said when introducing the term at the 1992 Rio Conference (Earth Summit II):  Industrialized countries [Americans] have “developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma.  It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption pattern of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning and suburban housing – are not sustainable.  A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.”  Strong also explains in an essay that the concept of sovereignty has to yield in favor of the “new imperatives of global environmental cooperative.”

In the vision statement for a sustainable future, linked to the governor’s website, we’re told to “think globally and act locally.”  We are in the process of becoming “global” citizens, rather than citizens of our state and our own nation.  It’s a world government in the making.

The concept of “sustainability” is, in fact, nothing less than socialism.  Our governor points to a wonderful speech made by the governor of Oregon.  Governor Kitzhaber's (Oregon) Sept. speech for the Sustainability Forum are called “inspiring words” by our Governor Locke.  Read more about it at UN mountains and UN sustainability .

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Sustainable Communities by Henry Lamb
written in 1997 - 
(Note involvement of William Rucklehaus, who is active in Washington toward sustainability)

Links from WA Governor's website on Sustainability

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