By Les Dunaway
In a debate co-sponsored by NYSE and Corporate Responsibility (CR) magazine’s COMMIT!Forum the Agenda 21 people made clear their agenda – the destruction of capitalism. Of course, anyone who has looked at the website wasn’t surprised.
[Reuters report] [Advisor One report]
Debate moderator John Harwood, CNBC’s chief Washington correspondent made his position clear from the beginning by characterizing the debate as “the Tea Party argument versus the European social argument.” I’m sure it wasn’t his intent, but as a Tea Partier, I felt complemented to be recognized as the opposition to European socialism.
Specious statements such as “Two-thirds of consumers want to do good with their purchases, and two-thirds of investors see doing good as a positive indicator of a company’s performance” were thrown out to “prove” that companies should roll over for the Agenda 21 goals.
Well, I work with investors every day and I’ve seen less than 1 in 100 such. I’ve also seen that when such see what it costs them, they soon change their mind. I’d like to see some real statistics showing that the average investor and / or consumer is willing to forgo profit / pay higher profits for some fuzzy Agenda 21 objective. I haven’t seen those statistics but I have seen “The Other Shoe Drops: Silicon Valley Officially Cuts Green Investments” and “Spain’s Solar-Power Collapse Dims Subsidy Model” – notice the key phrase “The industry’s fundamental problem is that, without subsidies, it’s still not economically viable.” That sentence, pretty much, sums up Agenda 21.
Keep in mind, these people are not saying that companies should be “good stewards” in the process of pursuing their goals. They are saying that companies should alter their goals to fit those of Agenda 21.
If some you have time, post comments based on researching the people listed on the COMMIT!Forum website. I’m sure those comments would make interesting reading and would help Madison Forum members and readers better understand who the Agenda 21 people really are.