Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to University of Copenhagen professor Ole Wæver, if we don’t act soon the UN Security Council might have to take over and dictate climate policy to member states, just as the EU took control of Greece.
Could climate change become a security issue — and threaten democracy?
RN By Farz Edraki and Ann Arnold for Late Night Live
Action to address climate change has been left so late that any political response will likely become an international security issue — and could threaten democracy.
That’s the view of Ole Wæver, a prominent international relations professor at the University of Copenhagen, who also says climate inaction could lead to armed conflict.
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When decision-makers — after delaying for so long — suddenly try to find a shortcut to realistic action, climate change is likely to “be securitised”.
Professor Wæver, who first coined the term “securitisation”, says more abrupt change could potentially threaten democracy.
“The United Nations Security Council could, in principle, tomorrow decide that climate change is a threat to international peace and security,” he says.
“And then it’s within their competencies to decide ‘and you are doing this, you are doing this, you are doing this, this is how we deal with it’.”
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“If there was something that was decided internationally by some more centralised procedure and every country was told ‘this is your emission target, it’s not negotiable, we can actually take military measures if you don’t fulfil it‘, then you would basically have to get that down the throat of your population, whether they like it or not,” he says.
“A bit like what we saw in southern Europe with countries like Greece and the debt crisis and so on.
“There were decisions that were made for them and then they just had to have a more or less technocratic government and get it through.”
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-03/climate-change-international-security-risk/11714284
Be good children, and follow the instructions of the climate professors, otherwise the United Nations is going to take your freedom away.
this is your emission target, it’s not negotiable, we can actually take military measures if you don’t fulfil it
Bring it on.
Ecofascism was only ever going to end one way, once again it will lead to a catastrophic war. That’s what’s coming folks.
There is only one way to deal with fascism and it’s not pretty, but necessary.
Like all European fascist movements it will end in a graveyard in Russia. Fascist fare poorly there.
The EU only ever *pretended* to be democratic. There are EU parliament members…but with no actual means of affecting policy on most issues.
The EU’s creeping Authoritarianism is more worrisome than Russia’s largely ineffective reach (outside of its energy-supply extortion racket – which has no trans-Atlantic “reach”).
The EU is not a dependable ally. Only England has abided by its treaty obligations…but lately, even they have been “going off the deep end” of leftism.
How apropos that NATO is headquartered in Belgium; these Green Blobsters are racist colonialists, just like the unlamented King Leopold of Belgium. The UN, the World Bank and the European Union seem intent on restoring the colonial system so popular in the 18th and 19th Centuries. They get to decide who is healthy, wealthy and wise; you’re Chinese, you get all the coal you want. You’re Indian, you get coal and hydro, too. You’re African; you get NOTHING! Maybe we’ll throw in a little solar so you can see how your European masters want to live, but YOU need to be kept in poverty for the sake of our poor befuddled children!
I wish I could get St. Greta and her acolytes to switch places with the hungry masses in Africa who are yearning to breath free; the Greenies could revel in the Utopian dream of the zero-carbon religion and the newly enriched Africans could raise their families in the liberty and prosperity that only fossil fuels have given Man. I personally don’t do social media but I would love to see young, black conservatives on Twitter and YouTube apprised of the wide racist streak in the watermelons of the climate hoax. Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO), Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) and David Harris, Jr. are just a few of those who might be interested in throwing the reality of modern day racism and colonialism into the face of the Left!
Every climate action is a threat to democracy.
Man Made Global Warming is a pox on all our houses and if we don’t turn them over for government control then they will huff and puff and blow those houses down.
You have little to fear from climate change but beware that Man Made government.
They almost got it right:
DelayingClimate Action Could Threaten DemocracyFixed.
And the UN Security Council, can make that “fix” proper real and permanent… 🙂
By also moving the “Could” to “Does” and expand it beyond “Democracy” to the
“Humanity at Large” too.
(if it comes to it)
cheers
You, and what army, RN By Farz Edraki and Ann Arnold?
You think the Gilets Jaunes or the farmers in the Netherlands are fringe groups, Farz and Ann?
Send any militarized force to enforce your silly religion and false prophecies and you officially escalate minor protests into armed conflicts.
Such despotic actions are more likely to be fought by the world’s major militaries than to support UN tyranny.
Neither China nor Russia want any part of a UN tyrannical green theocracy and I doubt most of the Western Civilizations are just as opposed.
Fractious threats by unknown militaries against the world’s residents as alleged by Farz Edraki and Ann Arnold is specious bloviating.
At this very moment climate action is already damaging democracy because a small group is forcing their destructive ideas on the silent majority.
Good luck trying to subjugate the US militarily. Even most of the idiots that reflexively vote the Democrat ticket would stand up to defend this country against such an attempt.
Even Robert A. Heinlein’s “Crazy Years” weren’t this crazy.
Pretty much the stupidest thing I ever heard. Something has to be done about Western universities. They have become the places common sense goes to die!
Greece did not have much of a choice. It was broke and its military is no match for the bigger countries. So it could not force the world to put more money into it other than by behaving. In a way at least. I am curious how those same professors would shove that down the US if Trump gets reelected and tell them to go pick some mushrooms instead. Maybe they find some magic ones. But it’s very revealing as for their real intentions.
Give us your Euros or we’ll print drachma and cut off your Kalamata olive supply. Like the UN taxeaters going on strike until they get troops to do their bidding.
Which democracy? Were do people have something to say?
According to a Princeton study, the top 1% (The Super Class by David Rothkopf) have more to say then the 99%.
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
“If there was something that was decided internationally by some more centralised procedure and every country was told ‘this is your emission target, it’s not negotiable, we can actually take military measures if you don’t fulfil it‘, then you would basically have to get that down the throat of your population, whether they like it or not,” he says….”
This is hilarious. I am sure every nation is quaking in their boots at the thought of an invasion by the EU military. Well, the children might be since their “Army” is good at raping them and the EU appears to be good at setting up pedophile rings but other nation’s military? Not so much.
As long as we don’t have a Democrat in the White House and, even with one, we still have our Second Amendment, I say, Molon Labe!
We’ve got to end democracy in order to save it.
Seems “democracy” is a mere “sacrifice”, reserved e.g. for disclaimers: “environmental justice”:
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-huawei&sxsrf=ACYBGNQzgU1qUHb6NQC6fGL4neRwxDWo9g%3A1575953210381&ei=OiPvXfDZFsTcrgSjgISADg&q=environmental+democracy+sacrifice&oq=environmental+democracy+sacrifice&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ole+W%C3%A6ver&client=ms-android-huawei&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&ctxs=2&ctxsl_trans=1&tlitetl=en&tlitetxt=Ole%20W%C3%A6ver
https://www.google.com/search?q=environmental+justice&oq=environmental+justice+&aqs=chrome.
Climate conference: Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer focus on emotional narratives
© AFP/Cristina Quicler
Updated on 09.12.2019, 15:35
The United Nations Climate Change Conference is currently the place to raise its voice in the fight for the global climate. The champions of the game Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer let the affected combatants tell their stories.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and her German combatant Luisa Neubauer are two prominent faces in the fight to save the global climate. For those who are less in the spotlight, the two set a stage at the UN climate summit in Madrid.
© AFP/Cristina Quicler
How climate change already affects people today
“The climate crisis will not only hit us in the future, it already affects countless people who are already suffering and dying”, Neubauer introduced contributions from various parts of the world.
Nakabuye Hilda Flavia feels abandoned
Nakabuye Hilda Flavia from Uganda criticized, despite the ever clearer effects of global warming in the rich industrialized countries “little or no action” to recognize. With that they abandoned Africa and other poor regions of the world.
Their continent causes almost no greenhouse gas emissions, “but we suffer the most,” said the African activist.
Kisha Erah Muaña demands to use every second
Kisha Erah Muaña, of the Philippines State, emphasized that she lives in one of the “most vulnerable regions of the world”. In view of the threat posed by rising sea levels to huge coastal areas, climate policy requires “every minute to act”.
Rose Whipple is fighting an oil pipeline in the US
Native American Rose Whipple told of her fight against an oil pipeline on the Mississippi and called for a fundamental rethinking: “It is time for us to reconnect with Mother Earth.” Because, as one activist from Chile summarizes: “Our lives are not negotiable!”
Arkak Makichyan went to jail for the climate: “I’m not afraid”
Russian activist Arshak Makichyan reported that he had been imprisoned for several days for his climate protests in his homeland.
But that does not stop him from calling attention to global warming. “I’m not afraid of being arrested, I’m afraid I’m not doing enough.” (HAU / dpa / AFP)
Greta Thunberg with a sobering conclusion in Madrid
The 16-year-old hopes that the 25th World Climate Change Conference will produce something concrete. Because so far still nothing has changed, so the Swede.
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https://www.gmx.at/magazine/politik/klimakonferenz-greta-thunberg-luisa-neubauer-emotionale-erzaehlungen-34252898
KcTaz December 5, 2019 at 3:34 pm
“That’s the view of Ole Wæver, a prominent international relations professor at the University of Copenhagen, who also says climate inaction could lead to armed conflict.”
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