Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The United Nations appears to think nations should stop wasting money on guns and soldiers and instead embrace funding UN climate change, economic decarbonisation and sustainability programmes.
Redirect military budgets to tackle climate change and pandemics
Governments should stop spending billions of dollars on weapons and protect citizens from the real threats they face.
Denise Garcia
20 AUGUST 2020Despite threats to human existence from climate change, biodiversity loss and a pandemic that’s devastating economies and paralysing societies, countries still spend recklessly on destructive weapons for wars they will never fight.
As an academic who advises the United Nations on arms control and the military uses of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, I have long argued that nations should prioritize ‘human security for the common good’ over military spending1,2. That means ensuring people can live to their full potential — economically fulfilled, politically enfranchised, in healthy environments and free from the fear of violence and pressing mortal threats such as climate change or pandemics.
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This year must represent a turning point for national security budgets. Governments need to accept that their concept of national security sustained by a military–industrial complex is anachronistic and irrelevant. To recover from the costs of the pandemic, estimated at up to $82 trillion over the next 5 years (see go.nature.com/2q5jtyf), they should instead focus their spending on stimulus packages for decarbonization, health, education and the environment. National security budgets should be ploughed into realizing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2015 Paris agreement to avert dangerous climate change. Ratifying the Arms Trade Treaty — whose member parties are meeting virtually this week — should be a first step.
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Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02460-9
Given how badly the UN WHO bungled their Covid-19 response, the UN is the last group I’d listen to for advice on how to make the world a safer place.
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Global defence spending in 2019 was $1.5 trillion. Cost of Paris $70 to $140 trillion. AOC green new deal $100 trillion. Estimated cost of trimmimg 1C by 2100 $3.94 Quadrilion. Since 2004 planet has spent $5 trillion on wind turbines which generated 1% of total energy demand. Demand growth in 2019 was 2.9%. Turbines are at BETZ limit, 24% efficient at birth declines to 11% at 15 years just before they die. Therefore if you wanted to generate 1% of demand growth per year then you would need to spend $20 trillion a year every year. Not possible but if possible and kept up for 50 years turbines would cover area the size of Russia. A nuclear plant can last 60 years but within that time wind turbines would need to be replaced four times. What befuddles me is those who make the most noise about climate know diddly squat about climate. But worse dont even care to check the economic viability of their supposed solutions or their physical viability. They dont even appear to realise where all of the stuff comes from or how it gets from one side of the planet to the other.
“Since 2004 planet has spent $5 trillion on wind turbines which generated 1% of total energy demand”
Good Lord !
There’s lots of money to be made in the Human-caused Climate Change scam.
“Governments should stop spending billions of dollars on weapons” and just give the money to the UN instead.
Or maybe governments should stop funding this monstrous out of control bureaucracy and just get rid of it.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/03/18/the-eco-crisis-ambition-of-the-un/
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/02/25/un/
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/03/06/sdg/
Let me put this in terms this simpleminded socialist/fascist a$$wipe can easily understand. ебать тебя, приятель, and 操你， 伙计 Any other bases I should cover?
You can always refer them to the reply given in Arkell and Pressdram
Putting it in languages they can understand gives it that certain panache they so richly deserve.
The US can manage its own affairs including it’s defense. And we certainly cannot depend on the UN for anything except it’s self interests.
Oh, yeah!
Reduce atmospheric CO2 to 185 ppm so there’s precious little plant growth and learn how to eat rocks!
That’s the ticket!
Idiots!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvz0TOm0zgI
Only a Fool Would Say That
23 Aug: Global Research Canada: The Carney/Freeland “Green Reset” Shapes Canada’s ‘New Normal’
By Matthew Ehret-Kump
Why would Chrystia Freeland, a Rhodes Scholar more proficient in regime change than banking, be given the reigns of Canada’s economic order during these trying times?
To answer these questions, we must review the role of Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action, former head of the Bank of England, and leading organizer of the upcoming COP26 Summit to be held in the UK this coming November…
When Mark Carney stepped down from the position of Governor of the Bank of Canada in 2013 to become the first non-British Governor of the Bank of England since the private central bank was created in 1694, it was made clearly known that this Oxford-trained Canadian technocrat had been vetted by some very high level powers.
After training for years as a Goldman Sachs investment banker where his activities helped fuel the bubble that nearly brought down the world economy in 2008, Carney was brought into the Governorship of the Bank of Canada to take on the role as the clean, conservative-minded Canadian central banker navigating through the chaos which his former employer helped create. It was at this time that Carney became a member of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Group of 30, Foundation board member of the World Economic Forum and leading participant at Bilderberg and Davos events. While still Bank of Canada governor, Carney was handed the keys to the BIS’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) by fellow Goldman Sachs man Mario Draghi in 2011 where he managed global derivates regulation (aka: fuse of the international weapon of mass financial destruction now bursting at the seams)…
On August 10th, it was first announced that Mark Carney (aka: the eco warrior of bankers) will be running a task force to restart the economy (titled the “Canadian Pandemic Recovery Plan”) which will attempt to aggressively put into motion those Green New Deal reforms laid out during the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” summit of July 14, 2020.
As I laid out in my recent paper The Great Reset Fraud (LINK), this program is little more than a cover for global depopulation and world government run by the same arsonists who have lit the world economy on fire in the first place…
For starters, Carney’s Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures co-run by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg aims to force all companies in the world to disclose all activities that either create carbon dioxide or disrupt supposed states of natural equilibrium which mathematical ivory tower ecologists presume govern all natural states.
On February 26, 2020, Carney joined Sir David Attenborough in launching the “COP26 Green Private Finance Initiative to ensure that “every professional financial decision to take climate change into account…”…
https://www.globalresearch.ca/carney-freeland-green-reset-shapes-canada-new-normal/5721843
” Sustainability ” is another meaningless buzzword of the Marxoid globalists and climate cretins.
”Redirect military budgets to tackle climate change and pandemics”
Great news for terrorists and dictators.
Are they also going to eliminate sticks and stones? Those turn out to make good spears, knives, arrows, etc. Now exactly which nation would benefit from having armies with only those weapons? Oh yeah, the nation with the highest population. Looks like another UN effort to hand over the world to China.
I think this is an excellent idea, to be fully implemented only after it’s verified that China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Iraq et cetera et cetera have given up all of their weapons and are committed to a peaceful world. In the meantime to save money at the UN, I suggest they move to a cheaper city. Lagos or Pyongyang both spring to mind.
Worth repeating that positions high in the UN are often based not on ability or knowledge but on politics, effectively whose countries turn is it now. Backed up by professional UN buricerates whose main purpose is to grow the UN and avoid any reasonability.
OK, which nation will want to dismantle its military first? Don’t all raise your hands at once. Only the nation that is more fearful of CO2 than its enemies. Russia? China? Iran? It looks as if most of our European allies have already done so.
Since the UN way of doing things is clearly much superior to that of western democracies, I suggests they collect their stuff and round up all the progressives, socialists, social justice warriors, all those unelected heads of failing states they like to do coffee with and head off to a new land to start their own country. Then all they need do is sit back and wait for those western democracies to fail and they can take over the world. They may want to give it a few decades or so, maybe longer. Don’t rush back fellas. We might be here a while.
Meanwhile….
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-double-nuclear-warheads-pentagon?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fpolitics%20%28Internal%20-%20Politics%20-%20Text%29
Trump isn’t going to cut the military budget. You can bet on that.
I heard an interesting conversation on the news this morning that speaks to whether Trump will be in a position to continue Making America Great and continue military spending.
Bill Stepien, Trump’s 2020 Campaign Manager, was talking this morning with Fox and Friends on the Fox News Channel, and the hosts were asking him about the latest Fox News poll showing Biden was ahead by nine points in Arizona, and Stepien said he loved Fox and Friends, and he loved Fox News, but he didn’t like the Fox News poll, and the hosts jumped on him a little and demanded that he explain what he thought was wrong with the Fox News poll, and Stepien said, “The percentage of Democrats who voted in Arizona the last time around was 28 percent of the votes cast, yet the Fox News poll was sampling Democrats at 48 percent in the Arizona Fox News poll.
This is what is happening in all these polls. They are either oversampling Democrats or undersampling Republicans, or both.
In these circumstances, what we have to focus on in the polls is how they are moving. At present, all polls are moving in Trump’s direction. So even though all the polls show Biden ahead of Trump by a few points, that lead has been steadily dropping and if the pollsters sampled voters at the percentages they voted in last time, Trump would be ahead in all the polls.
The purpose of polls is to sample public opinion, but in our current political climate, the purpose of the polls is to influence public opinion. Polls, and their interpretations, are just another political weapon for the Left. In this case, the polls are trying to discourage Trump’s voters by claiming Biden is leading. Don’t be fooled. Get out and vote.