Harris: Larry Spencer’s Boogeyman

Terry Harris, former Kootenai Environmental Alliance executive, begins a discussion of the Kootenai County Unified Land Use Code with a quetion in his headline: “How the U.N.’s Agenda 21 Affects Kootenai County, Idaho.” Then, he begins: “Spoiler alert: it doesn’t.” Back to Terry: “But thanks to the efforts of the Larry Spencer wing of the local Republican Party, a long-overdue overhaul of local land use codes is in jeopardy because of irrational fear of an obscure and utterly irrelevant international document. First, some background. For the 85% of Americans who will have no idea what this uproar is about , Agenda 21 is a 20-year-old document produced at the so-called “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 as a non-binding resolution. The broad principles were reaffirmed the general direction at a similar international summit in Johannesburg in 2002.” More here.