I disagree with your assessment. I do not think this a semantic exercise.
Those intent on global domination have written a broad plan: Man In the Biosphere. The broad plan has its principle goals: Agenda 21. They have a vehicle to carry that goal: Sustainable Development.
They have provided us the details, including what legal framework must be erected to enforce the plan. They have left their calling card throughout our institutions, via a new lexicon of words, so to hide what we all inherently know is the poison of socialism.
The problem is that you, and others, see the word “sustainable development” and THINK “conserve resources”...
BUT the AUTHORS of the plan, the ONLY ones that may interpret the meaning of their words, see the word “sustainable development” and KNOW that it means “global socialism” through the accelerated denial of private property.
Take a look at the growing number of “World Heritage” sites, and “Biosphere Reserves”... Investigate the increasing amount of land confiscated by the federal government. Look at wetlands provisions and wildlife corridors, the clean water restoration act, the food safety act, etc. Read the new building codes, and environmental laws that are being promulgated. Search the curriculum of our schools and colleges. Even our grocery stores and shopping malls carry the water of these change agents, using advertising to convey to us, and more importantly to our children, the central organizing principle. Everywhere one may look, the fingerprint of a centralized control married to environmentalism is evident... AND the guiding philosophy is consistently “sustainability.”
There is a lot more to this than you may be aware... a pseudo religious aspect based in New Age philosophy. If you search, you will discover that many corporate leaders have received “trainings” in New Age-centered “human potential” programs... all of which possess some aspect of this mother earth philosophy. Many have made such “training” a requirement for their high level employees. The same indoctrination is also present among many teachers, etc. I know because I witnessed it with my own eyes. I met many executives from major companies who were caught up in this nonsense. I saw the lists of hundreds of others, whom I never met... and knew of the general plans to bring as many intellectuals and influential leaders of business and policy making into the fold.
It is no surprise to me how fast this “sustainability” movement has spread. The entire construct is diabolical in nature, which explains how so many seemingly unrelated parts easily coalesce into the whole. We are facing something far more powerful than we may be willing to admit at this time.
Great response! You mention “advertising” (of course the whole issue runs very deep and through all society): I don’t know how long the commercial has been running because I watch very little T.V., but while watching the Packers game last Sunday with the kids a commercial was played with a “green car” driving across the earth towing the sun behind it. I recognized the meaning behind the commercial about 2 seconds into it and had to explain to my kids (who told me they like the colorful commercial) that it was about “gaia”/mother earth, pagan/new age religions, and brainwashing.
“The entire construct is diabolical in nature, which explains how so many seemingly unrelated parts easily coalesce into the whole. We are facing something far more powerful than we may be willing to admit at this time.”
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“Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
——-HP LOVECRAFT
There is no "one" particular leftist program, or policy, or group, or agenda item, that is any more or less diabolical or supreme than all the others. They all share the common enemies of individual freedom and constitutional rights, but they are loosely connected by a wide variety of mind-mush studies of a wide variety of collectivist ideas and characters.
Their intention is to inflict death by a thousand cuts to freedom, and they fully intend to destroy our constitutional republic. They understand only power, and mainly the power to confiscate other people's wealth (since they don't produce any themselves).
I just call them all communists; it's simple and it's appropriate. You could just as easily call them marxists, collectivists, anarchists, Democrats, or any one of dozens of labels. That's just personal preference.
In our time, we just have to expose them as destructive elements and groups, and educate enough of the voting populace to defeat them, either at the ballot box, or on the battlefields.