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Envision Skagit 2060 (With No Private Property)

6/24/2012

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Skagit Citizens are taking action to oppose the "Envision Skagit 2060 Plan", which is funded with two grants from the Environmental Protection Agency with substantial in-kind contributions from SkagitCounty and its partners, according to an email received last Tuesday. 

It continues, 

Private property rights continue to be under assault across America.   Perhaps more alarming is the disappearance of private property altogether. This major shift away from a fundamental tenet of our nation - the right to own and use private property - is due, in part, to a plan that has been at work in the USA for the past twenty years. That plan is called Agenda 21.  

Skagit county has finished it's work on the Envision Skagit 2060 plan which will impose Agenda 21 style control over our communities.  


The email provides several links to expose and educate people about Agenda 21, and the anti-individual, watermelon movement. (Watermelons are green on the outside and red on the inside: collectivists, who use the environment to stampede otherwise skeptical citizens into forfeiting their individual rights for the collective, out of fear of sensationalized Chicken Little scenarios.)

The meeting took place June 21, 2012. Kate Martin reports on GoSkagit.com,

MOUNT VERNON — By the end of the century, fall flooding on the Skagit River will be more severe, catastrophic coastal flooding could happen every year and salmon could be further endangered by low summer runoff, a University of Washington climate scientist told a packed house Thursday morning.

University of Washington’s Alan Hamlet with the Climate Impacts Group explained how climate change is expected to affect the Skagit River. His talk focused on how greenhouse gases, like those created with the burning of fossil fuels, will cause Earth’s temperature to rise.


The story continues,

Several people challenged Hamlet during the question-and-answer period, including Don Easterbrook, a geology professor emeritus at Western Washington University and a renowned climate science skeptic. Easterbrook contested the numbers upon which the projections were based, including the amount of atmospheric water vapor, a greenhouse gas.

Hamlet said he was not convinced by Easterbrook’s arguments because the data he sees includes “very good measurements of the water content in the atmosphere.” Hamlet added that while specific temperature and sea level rise projections are often wrong, the general trend is an increase of both.

“What the climate models do give us is the trajectory, and they are so unambiguous about that trajectory going forward,” Hamlet said.

One man asked why Hamlet used what he called “optomistic projections.” The man said the carbon dioxide and methane levels in the atmosphere are increasing, not staying level.

WE think the kinds of governments that have the dictatorial power to force people from  technologies and behaviors of their own free choice to that of the government's choosing, consistently have much lower environmental quality than that of freer governments. Why would this change just because they're our dictators? 

Fads come and go, and fads are no more or less common among the people than they are among the anointed government elites. Furthermore, the free market doesn't require an act of congress to change direction if real problems are encountered. 


7 Comments
MissOdie
6/24/2012 03:23:25 pm

Want further proof that this is all Agenda 21 driven? Watch this video from Rosa Koire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDtCb45Lqt0

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Karen Schoen link
6/25/2012 09:40:02 am

How may times can you find private property rights in your Envision Skagit 2060 plan? Central planning is modeled after the old failed Soviet city/states which was the way the Soviets restricted rights and mobility for their citizens. Control the food, mobility and water by transforming education into indoctrination. Dumb people require less resources. They are happy in government controlled sustainable developments. check out agenda21today.com

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AngrySmoker
6/25/2012 12:13:47 pm

In communities across America, "stakeholder" councils are being formed, or have already been formed, to advance Agenda 21 to transform cities and towns into "sustainable communities." The "consensus process" is used to gain the appearance of public support for the principles of sustainability, applied to a particular community. The process is designed to take the public policy- making function away from elected officials and place it in the hands of non-elected officials, while giving the appearance of broad public input into the decision-making process. Here is Skagit County - this process ended with the Envision 2060 report. Since the Skagit Council of Governments threw out the "global climate change" section - they will get another "stake holder" group to make the "right" decision. Why? Because our elected representatives will let them !

Keep informing people...our property and our freedom are at stake!
See: http://americanpolicy.org/2012/05/12/agenda-21-conspiracy-theory-or-threat/

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Tony C link
6/25/2012 12:31:21 pm

Steer everyone to our website, there they will learn exactly what is going on and find a lot of resources to push back. Agenda 21 is the socialist - communist plan for a one world government where they are the elite, and we are the slaves.

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Forest Steward
6/26/2012 05:50:47 pm

Great comments by informed folks.

Listen to this 10 minute video of Lord Monckton recapping the happenings at Rio + 20 conferences and discussing the insidious Green Movement, ICLEI, and Marxists game plans hatched there and we see being played out right here in Skagit & Whatcom Counties.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-NOjX9l4kk&feature=player_embedded

Anyone that has had any dealings with either county's planning departments sees this being done through programs like Skagit Envision 2060, Whatcom Envision 2031, and the WA State mandated Shoreline Master Programs as well as numerous everyday policies that strictly limit use to out and out prevention of use of private property.

Did you know that private property owners in Skagit County are already being prevented from drilling wells to get water for home use on their own properties? It is a fact.

This Envision 2060 'hand-picked' committee also wants to force the future population to 90% urban and 10% rural through policy and ordinances and restrict use of farmlands & forests, among many other resources. It is not really about the environment. It is about global government control at local levels.

Read the plans. Be informed! Speak out and show up to stop these takings.

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Skagit Razzberry
7/3/2012 07:47:45 am

Envision Skagit is another process where officials elected by citizens are advised to cede stewardship of those citizens, their property, their economic future and their tax dollars to unelected entities, who claim to have everyone's best interests at heart. This plan is a power play, plain and simple. What are we paying our officials for, if these usurpers will actually dictate to us? Government needs to stop trading our rights for grant cash and bad advice. This plan is an economic disaster in the making. Where has the Governor who praised this plan put our state, fiscally? Deep in the red, just like this plan will. This is unsustainable Utopian fantasy. Let's try living within our means. I thought that this plan was meant to "preserve" our quality of life but it will in fact, destroy it. Skagit County doesn't need a new nanny. Instead, we need a fire extinguisher to put out all the flaming hair around here.

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