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Water’s global moment has arrived, the World Economic Forum joyously declares on its Global Water Initiative page referring to the upcoming United Nations Water Conference. The website must be out of date because the UN’s conference has been and gone.
In March 2023, the UN Water Conference was held in New York, co-hosted by the governments of the Netherlands and Tajikistan. It is the first time this conference has been held in 46 years; the first was held in Argentina in 1977.
“We hope it could result in a “Paris moment” for water – with outcomes as critical for water as the Paris Agreement has been for climate action,” Henk Ovink and Sulton Rahimzoda said.
Ovink is the Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Rahimzoda is the Special Envoy of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Water and Climate Coalition Leaders.
On the Conference’s website, the UN notes: “Water is a dealmaker for the Sustainable Development Goals … But our progress on water related goals and targets remains alarmingly off track, jeopardising the entire sustainable development agenda.” It titles its project as “Uniting the world for water.”
The first clue is something WEF wrote about the launch in the summary at the top of Ovink and Rahimzoda’s article: “The Global Commission on the Economics of Water, launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2022, will report on game-changing ways to value and manage water as a common good.”
The key phrase is “common good.”
The common good is a collectivist term used for social control. Collectivism takes many forms: socialism, fascism, Nazism or National Socialism, welfare statism and communism. As German Nazi politician Hermann Goering said, the highest principle of Nazism is “common good comes before private good.”
Under socialism, a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalised theft, according to the Ashbrook Centre of Ashland University....<<<Read More>>>...