If you lived in Coatesville in the early 21st Century you are a casualty of the “war on environment”

Pat Sellers was a “warrior” for the John Birch Society here. 

The U.N. Agenda 21, a planning document for the 21st Century, came out of the U.N. Conference on Environment & Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It is a list of suggestions to deal with pollution, overpopulation, poverty and resource depletion. 

The basic principles of Agenda 21 have filtered down to local planning in U.S. communities. Think of things like stormwater management,  energy efficient buildings AND HERE IN COATESVILLE, PA REVITALIZATION OF MORE DENSELY POPULATED COMMUNITIES TO SAVE FARMLAND FROM RUNAWAY SUBURBAN TRACT HOUSING. 

The John Birch Society sent a contingent to monitor the Rio conference. 

Agenda 21 as a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. and take our guns away is like all John Birch Society conspiracy theories completely made up with no basis in fact.  That didn't stop the Republican Party from making resistance to Agenda 21 part of the GOP platform in 2008. 

When Did Republicans Start Hating the Environment?

Roughly 1991, according to a new study.

—By Chris Mooney | Tue Aug. 12, 2014

AGENDA 21

The UN, Sustainability

and Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory

A Special Report from the Southern Poverty Law Center

Montgomery, Alabama

APRIL 2014