OK everyone gather around, take a knee, and listen up; Secretary-General António Guterres of the United Nations is about to speak.
“Today, one third of the world’s people, mainly in least developed countries and small island developing states, are still not covered by early warning systems... This is unacceptable, particularly with climate impacts sure to get even worse. Early warnings and action save lives. To that end, today I announce the United Nations will spearhead new action to ensure every person on Earth is protected by early warning systems within five years…Climate, weather and water-related extremes have led to 15 times more deadly hazards for people in Africa, South Asia, South and Central America, and small island states. Vulnerable, least-developed countries that have not contributed significantly to the climate crisis are bearing the brunt. Over the last 50 years, nearly 70 per cent of all deaths from climate-related disasters have occurred in the 46 poorest countries…Early warning systems have helped decrease the number of deaths and have reduced losses and damages resulting from hazardous weather, water or climate events.”
Oh-Oh! I sense a world tax. This is gonna cost me, right?
Not much, about $0.00137 per day. 50 cents a year. That’s not so bad. You won’t even notice the personal cost.
But what if, just what if, the UN, once it establishes the funding, then decides to “do more”? To tax more? Once a bureaucracy gets its hands on funding, It can’t stop asking for more, and then it becomes perpetual, as an early warning system is sure to become—all those administrators and their burgeoning support staffs.
That’s down the road. Anyway, don’t you have a heart? Don’t you care about poor kids living in Khartoum who might not get an early warning of a heat wave or drought? Where’s your humanity?
Sure, I empathize, but can’t hose kids take a dip in either the Blue Nile or the White Nile on the edge of town in walking distance? I know that both kids and adults in my area used the Monongahela, Youghiogheny, Allegheny, Cheat, and Ohio rivers for cooling off during a couple of centuries of hot summer weather. The practice has diminished along the bigger rivers in these days of cheap backyard pools, but a mountain stream like the Youghiogheny still draws summer crowds.
Climate Event?
Go back a sec. What’s a “climate event”? You mean something like the Lesser Dryas, the Medieval Warm Period, or the Little Ice Age? What’s an early warning system going to do when the event occurs over a century or two or even over a half millennium? Can you envision Marco Polo returning to Europe to proclaim a coming “ice age”? “Everybody, gather round; take a knee. I’ve just returned from the Far East to tell you what I learned from a soothsayer I met in Cathay. There’s going to be persistent cold weather and a devastating plague in the coming century. Be warned.”
Climate or Weather event? I can understand an early warning for weather events. Get the word out that a hurricane is coming. Definitely makes sense; definitely will save lives. Contrast that with a warning system for climate change. Who’s going to act on one? Such changes aren’t on average abrupt as Earth slides slowly into them like a person entering either cold lake or a hot bath.
Climate Justice
You’re just not for climate justice.
Say what? Cli…
Climate justice. It’s the latest term bandied about in the hallowed halls of academia. The University of California Center for Climate Justice has this statement on its website:
“Climate Justice recognizes the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low-income communities and communities of color around the world, the people and places least responsible for the problem.” *
Note the assumption that climate change is anthropogenic. These well-meaning intellectuals say that climate justice rests on “six pillars,” which they list as:
The second “pillar” sounds like one of those equity-DEI things, and the sixth, in the context of climate politicization, sounds suspiciously like indoctrination. I’m a bit suspicious of any use of the word justice nowadays.
How about the fifth pillar? It’s defined as “natural climate solutions take a systems approach and include regenerative farming, agroforestry, permaculture, urban gardens, and forest restoration.” Urban gardens like the ancient wonder “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” will turn our cities green, add hydroponics to traditional farming, and reclaim paved arable lands with growing pots on the sides of skyscrapers and apartment complexes. Restoring forests? Tough to do in the Amazon, where slash-and-burn practices have eliminated the restorative nature of rainforests that housed most of the nutrients in living plants and not in the soils now laid bare. But the thought is a relatively reasonable “solution” for those concerned about carbon dioxide. I say “relatively” for a because the carbon sequestered in new growth will eventually be released once again with inevitable new death. And the effect of forests on sequestration will have little to do to help locals like indigenous Amazonians with ’climate justice” if the problem is worldwide carbon emissions.
Noble intentions can still pave the road to Hell for some. Here’s the clue: “This approach, which unites people around equity, has the power to make real and lasting system-wide change. Yep, there it is EQUITY writ large. Equal outcomes spell unequal treatment based on imposed distribution of wealth, jobs, treatment, and freedoms. Climate justice isn’t the panacea and won’t produce the utopia hoped for by climate justice warriors. Someone “at the top,” someone like the UN Secretary-General or his designees, will make the decisions on what such justice entails. And in nations some elected official steeped in climate alarmism will decide for the citizenry.
Like the pittance of fifty cents per person, the control over humanity will grow just as the world tax will grow. And as climate warriors decrease the carbon that makes the world green, they’ll increase the greenbacks in their pockets.
*https://centerclimatejustice.universityofcalifornia.edu/what-is-climate-justice/#natural-climate-solutions
“Today, one third of the world’s people, mainly in least developed countries and small island developing states, are still not covered by early warning systems... This is unacceptable, particularly with climate impacts sure to get even worse. Early warnings and action save lives. To that end, today I announce the United Nations will spearhead new action to ensure every person on Earth is protected by early warning systems within five years…Climate, weather and water-related extremes have led to 15 times more deadly hazards for people in Africa, South Asia, South and Central America, and small island states. Vulnerable, least-developed countries that have not contributed significantly to the climate crisis are bearing the brunt. Over the last 50 years, nearly 70 per cent of all deaths from climate-related disasters have occurred in the 46 poorest countries…Early warning systems have helped decrease the number of deaths and have reduced losses and damages resulting from hazardous weather, water or climate events.”
Oh-Oh! I sense a world tax. This is gonna cost me, right?
Not much, about $0.00137 per day. 50 cents a year. That’s not so bad. You won’t even notice the personal cost.
But what if, just what if, the UN, once it establishes the funding, then decides to “do more”? To tax more? Once a bureaucracy gets its hands on funding, It can’t stop asking for more, and then it becomes perpetual, as an early warning system is sure to become—all those administrators and their burgeoning support staffs.
That’s down the road. Anyway, don’t you have a heart? Don’t you care about poor kids living in Khartoum who might not get an early warning of a heat wave or drought? Where’s your humanity?
Sure, I empathize, but can’t hose kids take a dip in either the Blue Nile or the White Nile on the edge of town in walking distance? I know that both kids and adults in my area used the Monongahela, Youghiogheny, Allegheny, Cheat, and Ohio rivers for cooling off during a couple of centuries of hot summer weather. The practice has diminished along the bigger rivers in these days of cheap backyard pools, but a mountain stream like the Youghiogheny still draws summer crowds.
Climate Event?
Go back a sec. What’s a “climate event”? You mean something like the Lesser Dryas, the Medieval Warm Period, or the Little Ice Age? What’s an early warning system going to do when the event occurs over a century or two or even over a half millennium? Can you envision Marco Polo returning to Europe to proclaim a coming “ice age”? “Everybody, gather round; take a knee. I’ve just returned from the Far East to tell you what I learned from a soothsayer I met in Cathay. There’s going to be persistent cold weather and a devastating plague in the coming century. Be warned.”
Climate or Weather event? I can understand an early warning for weather events. Get the word out that a hurricane is coming. Definitely makes sense; definitely will save lives. Contrast that with a warning system for climate change. Who’s going to act on one? Such changes aren’t on average abrupt as Earth slides slowly into them like a person entering either cold lake or a hot bath.
Climate Justice
You’re just not for climate justice.
Say what? Cli…
Climate justice. It’s the latest term bandied about in the hallowed halls of academia. The University of California Center for Climate Justice has this statement on its website:
“Climate Justice recognizes the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low-income communities and communities of color around the world, the people and places least responsible for the problem.” *
Note the assumption that climate change is anthropogenic. These well-meaning intellectuals say that climate justice rests on “six pillars,” which they list as:
- Just transition
- Social, racial, and environmental justice
- Indigenous climate action
- Community resilience and adaptation
- Natural climate solutions
- Climate education and engagement
The second “pillar” sounds like one of those equity-DEI things, and the sixth, in the context of climate politicization, sounds suspiciously like indoctrination. I’m a bit suspicious of any use of the word justice nowadays.
How about the fifth pillar? It’s defined as “natural climate solutions take a systems approach and include regenerative farming, agroforestry, permaculture, urban gardens, and forest restoration.” Urban gardens like the ancient wonder “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” will turn our cities green, add hydroponics to traditional farming, and reclaim paved arable lands with growing pots on the sides of skyscrapers and apartment complexes. Restoring forests? Tough to do in the Amazon, where slash-and-burn practices have eliminated the restorative nature of rainforests that housed most of the nutrients in living plants and not in the soils now laid bare. But the thought is a relatively reasonable “solution” for those concerned about carbon dioxide. I say “relatively” for a because the carbon sequestered in new growth will eventually be released once again with inevitable new death. And the effect of forests on sequestration will have little to do to help locals like indigenous Amazonians with ’climate justice” if the problem is worldwide carbon emissions.
Noble intentions can still pave the road to Hell for some. Here’s the clue: “This approach, which unites people around equity, has the power to make real and lasting system-wide change. Yep, there it is EQUITY writ large. Equal outcomes spell unequal treatment based on imposed distribution of wealth, jobs, treatment, and freedoms. Climate justice isn’t the panacea and won’t produce the utopia hoped for by climate justice warriors. Someone “at the top,” someone like the UN Secretary-General or his designees, will make the decisions on what such justice entails. And in nations some elected official steeped in climate alarmism will decide for the citizenry.
Like the pittance of fifty cents per person, the control over humanity will grow just as the world tax will grow. And as climate warriors decrease the carbon that makes the world green, they’ll increase the greenbacks in their pockets.
*https://centerclimatejustice.universityofcalifornia.edu/what-is-climate-justice/#natural-climate-solutions
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