A generation ago, federal public lands advocates across the western United States were on alert for “blue helmets” in black unmarked helicopters engaged in a secret plan, a conspiracy by the United Nations to control access to America’s vast federal lands.
That may have been bonkers, but the fear of a United Nations “takeover” of public lands in the United States persists, only this time, it’s not “blue helmets” in helicopters but accountants and global financiers with red pens who are allegedly undermining American sovereignty.
So claim House Republicans, who say the Biden administration is actively aiding and abetting this “green colonization” despite bipartisan opposition to its adoption of a benefit-cost analysis matrix developed by the United Nations that uses “natural capital accounting” (NAC) and “ecosystem services valuation” (ESV) in crafting federal public lands policy, regulations, and rules….
