Kinda crazy when the only rational nation is Russia, which, as the old saying goes, even a broken clock is correct twice a day (oh, and India)
Russia vetoes UN resolution linking climate change, security
Russia on Monday vetoed a first-of-its-kind U.N. Security Council resolution casting climate change as a threat to international peace and security, a vote that sank a years-long effort to make global warming a more central consideration for the U.N.’s most powerful body.
Spearheaded by Ireland and Niger, the proposal called for “incorporating information on the security implications of climate change” into the council’s strategies for managing conflicts and into peacekeeping operations and political missions, at least sometimes. The measure also asked the U.N. secretary-general to make climate-related security risks “a central component” of conflict prevention efforts and to report on how to address those risks in specific hotspots.
“It’s long overdue” that the U.N.’s foremost security-related body take up the issue, Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason said.
So, stupid climate cult stuff, interjecting ‘climate change’ into the mix rather than focusing on what the actual security issues are. The headline is something else, and forgot something. Is ABC prejudiced against Indians?
But India and veto-wielding Russia voted no, while China abstained.
So, kinda click-baity headline, trying to make it seem like the only nation against was Russia. How many will make it down to the 7th paragraph to see that India also voted against? Sure, they don’t have veto power like Russia, but, what, are they chumps?
Their envoys said the issue should remain with broader U.N. groups, such as the Framework Convention on Climate Change. Adding climate change to the Security Council’s purview would only deepen global divisions that were pointed up by last month’s climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, the opponents said. The talks ended in a deal that recommitted to a key target for limiting warming and broke some new ground but fell short of the U.N.’s three big goals for the conference.
Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia complained that Monday’s proposed resolution would turn “a scientific and economic issue into a politicized question,” divert the council’s attention from what he called “genuine” sources of conflict in various places and give the council a pretext to intervene in virtually any country on the planet.
India and China questioned the idea of tying conflict to climate, and they predicted trouble for the Glasgow commitments if the Security Council — a body that can impose sanctions and dispatch peacekeeping troops — started weighing in more.
This is rather like real environmental issues: slapping climate doom into the mix makes it much, much tougher to deal with the real issues.
Of course we should let Russia and China lead the world…
Teach: This is rather like real environmental issues: slapping climate doom into the mix makes it much, much tougher to deal with the real issues.
Isn’t that what the left has been doing with every issue for some time now, creating a “mix”? From filthy illegals being brought in and shipped around the country to dilute the cultural makeup and electoral influence of the citizens to releasing rioters and arsonists from jails while keeping political prisoners held indefinitely. Calling to defund the police, removing bail, refusing to prosecute crimes (chosen by the elites naturally) and watching the crime rate soar in blue cities while they either ignore it, deny it or blame it on “guns” or Covid. The left has created a post constitutional America and the future looks dim.