by E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.Founder and National Spokesman,
Cornwall Alliance
If you think the U.N. climate summit in Cancun November 29 through December 10 is about fixing Earth’s climate woes, think again.
German economist Ottmar Edenhofer, an official with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said in an interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung on November 14:
… it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War. … we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. … One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore ….
The reason? Edenhofer explains: “causes of climate change lie in the north and the consequences in the south.” Consequently, “one cannot solve the climate problem alone, but it has to be linked to other problems. There must be penalties and incentives: global CO2-tariffs and technology transfer.” I.e., for the climate change it’s allegedly already caused, the developed world’s got to pay the developing world—and the bill will be trillions of dollars.
Last year in Copenhagen for COP-15 I viewed thousands of protesters carrying signs saying, “System Change, Not Climate Change!” Edenhofer’s comment makes the signs’ meaning clear: Reject capitalist, economic globalization and replace it with socialist, governmental globalization—and redistribute wealth from the West to the rest and political power from dispersed, sovereign nations accountable to their citizens to the centralized, unaccountable U.N.
COP-16 has the same aim. In 1994, the U.N. Development Program, in its Human Development Report, said:
We strongly believe that the United Nations must become the principal custodian of our global human security. … Global taxation may become necessary … to achieve the goals of global human security. Some of the promising new sources include tradable permits for global pollution, a global tax on non-renewable energy, demilitarization funds and a small transaction tax on speculative international movements of foreign exchange funds.
That, not climate fixing, is what COP-16 is really all about. COP-15 was a dud. Pray that COP-16 will be, too.
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After watching Mr. Beisner (via Youtube) in a debate that took place many years ago, when he and the late Dr. Walter Martin were defending the principles of Biblical truth, I looked him up. I think the work he has done in this area is outstanding.
Chris Reimers
Posted by Chris 
Wings of the Wind 
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY – A FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION?
December 9, 201016And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,
17and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
It is this passage in Revelation 13 that causes many Christians to believe that there will eventually be a one world government along with a one world “currency.”
I lean towards this view myself, because of the above verses and other scriptures. Since the prophecies about Jesus were fulfilled perfectly, I can’t see those that deal with future events having any less accuracy.
Evidently, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon made a statement on Tuesday that would cause many to take notice. In Cancun, Mexico, at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of the Parties 16, Mr. Moon said:
“We need to fundamentally transform the global economy – based on low-carbon, clean energy resources.”
German economist Ottmar Edenhofer, an official with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said in an interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung on November 14:
“… it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War. … we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. … One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore ….”
One question I have is: “Why could I not find this story in any mainline sources, including Fox?”
The best I could find was this headline:
U.S. nears agreement to curb destruction of world’s rain forests
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/07/AR2010120707171.html
Are Christians the only ones concerned about the global ambitions of the U.N. or are Christians paranoid? I think the former is much closer to the truth.
How much the U.N. will be a part of the two verses above are pure speculation. Jesus told us to “watch,” and that’s what I intend to do.
Chris Reimers
Sources:
U.N. Secretary General Calls for Fundamental Transformation of the Global Economy:
http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2010/12/un-secretary-general-calls-for.html
U.N. Secretary General Calls for Fundamental Transformation of the Global Economy:
http://www.worldfocusnews.com/?p=115995
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