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Rebutting Rockefeller: the chairman of the Earth Charter drafting committee takes issue with this magazine's expose, "The New World Religion." The facts show that his objections are not sustainable. (Earth Charter).
Professor Steven C. Rockefeller has objected to my critique of the Earth Charter, "The New World Religion," in the September 23rd issue of THE NEW AMERICAN. (See his full letter on page 3). The article, he says, "contains some misunderstandings" about the Earth Charter Initiative which he then purports to correct. Below is my response to a number of his points.
Rockefeller: "The Earth Charter is the product of a worldwide, cross-cultural, interfaith dialogue on common goals and shared values that has been conducted as a civil society initiative."
Response: The global campaign for the Charter is not a grass-roots, bottom-up effort, but a closely ...
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