Hilary Ostrov writes about another Internet poll gone horribly wrong:
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Back in March of this year, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced an “innovative initiative” in which participants from around the world are invited to vote on what the priorities should be in a post-2015 world.
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From now until 2015, we want as many people in as many countries as possible to be involved: citizens of all ages, genders and backgrounds, particularly the world’s poor and marginalized communities.
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This page also lists the sixteen choices (from which a voter may select only 6), of which two in succession were quite interesting:
Reliable energy at home
Action taken on climate change
If you decide to vote, you’ll see that each of the choices has an explanation. There is good news and bad news on the “Reliable energy at home” front. They’re not talking “renewable”, but:
This means that all family members should have reliable and affordable electricity or other sources of energy at home for lighting, heating and cooking. More of that energy should be sustainably generated
but they slipped in “sustainable” (without defining it!) … And here’s the (somewhat predictable) explanation they provide for “Action taken on climate change”:
This means that governments should take on binding commitments to reduce carbon emissions to levels which can keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees, and invest in adaptation measures particularly involving vulnerable communities
More here: http://hro001.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/newsflash-action-on-climate-change-voted-bottom-of-worlds-priority-heap/
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I took the poll, and afterwards using the mouseover to highlight the climate change issue, the results show that climate change just isn’t a priority, especially with people that have a low HDI (Human Development Index) which is a measure of the prosperity and health of the country they reside in.
It seems concern over climate change is a rich person’s pastime, which just goes to show that cheap energy is the path forward to a better HDI, and thus a greater ability to be concerned about the environment. Translation: people just getting by don’t have time for such concerns.
Vote for yourself here if you wish: http://www.myworld2015.org/index.html
What twaddle. Almost every explanation followed some liberal meme. What about freedom from stupid governments? Notice no private property rights. Freedom of association missing unless you want to be in a union. Free press? Zippo. No privacy from government snoops. (Psst NSA, that means you.) Basically the entire Bill of Rights from US Constitution was ignored. That says it all.
Konrad says:
June 17, 2013 at 7:00 pm
‘Becoming’ is the wrong tense, more like ‘has become’. The UN is a pass through organization. If it would just finally become a past organization. On second thought, they have the IPCC and we send them Billions. So I guess we have to make a distinction between dysfunctional and irrelevant.
A previous U.S. ambassador, one John Bolton, to the U.N. made the
following statement:
“The U.N. Secretariat building at Turtle Bay has 38 stories. If the building
lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”
Or, in other words, almost 1/4 of the U.N. headquarters is simply waste.
I think he was right, probably about the whole organization.
It was a rant too far.
The whole thing is a socialistic utopianistic mess. It begs for a counter poll with cleaned-up definitions for the categories. The mealy mouth UN verbiage is meaningless, or diabolically meaningful . Like, below it looks like the UN thinks people will want the have the right to “expect”. And protection from “threats”; I guess not the actual deed itself.
Here’s an example of what they say…
Under the option Crimes and Violence:
“This means that all people should expect to live in a community that protects them from the threat of crime and violence. This should include domestic violence and sexual assault against women and girls. Every person should be able to get justice through a court or other system if they are victims of a crime – See more at: http://www.myworld2015.org/index.html#sthash.ViZVVxSu.dpuf”
Here’s what it should say…
“This means that people should have the right to live on their own property secure in their persons and possessions and be able to provide and assemble for their own immediate self defense. That the individual may voluntarily reside in a community that leases powers to the state to the limited extent necessary to defend peace at each of the more general levels of that community.