Danish Academic: U.N. Might Use Military Force Against States That Defy Climate Change Mandates

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The UN may use military force against nations like the United States that are defying its mandates on climate change, says Ole Wæver.

The United Nations may use military force against nations like the United States that are defying its mandates on climate change, according to Ole Wæver, a prominent international relations professor at the University of Copenhagen.

According to the professor, the United Nations may threaten military action in an effort to force nations to “get [climate change mandates] down the throat of your population, whether they like it or not.

President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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’.

In an interview with ABC News in Australia, Professor Wæver cautions that what he sees as “climate inaction” might draw the U.N. into considering other means to ensure its goals are met, even if that leads to global armed conflict.

Breitbart report: Professor Wæver says more resistance to change could potentially threaten democracy although the U.N. would counter that the end justified the means in much the same way countries like Greece had their debt crisis solutions forced on them by European Union bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg.

He believes classifying climate change as a security issue could leave the door open to more extreme policy responses.

That’s what happens when something becomes a security issue, it gets the urgency, the intensity, the priority, which is helpful sometimes, but it also lets the dark forces loose in the sense that it can justify problematic means,” he says.

This urgency, he says, could lead to more abrupt – and essentially undemocratic – action at an international level.

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.”

Professor Wæver made his predictions last month on the eve of the United Nations COP25 climate conference now underway in Madrid, Spain.

Almost 25,000 delegates and 1500 journalists have flown into the Spanish capital to attend the two-week long meeting.

COP25 will consider a wide agenda of global action including implementing taxes on developed countries to transfer wealth to nations dealing with “the cost of drought, floods and superstorms made worse by rising temperatures,” as reported.

President Donald Trump officially withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, which COP25 is a continuation thereof,  in October as part of an election promise to voters, saying he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

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5 Comments

    • Sara, you always have great memes, thank you! Environmentalism IS Communism – I”ve watched the whole enviro show since the 1960s in California where it started. My husband is a biologist of 45 yrs and is constantly pointing out all the numerous inaccuracies and lies about it, using SCIENCE, not fantasy and it is used to make us feel guilty so we consent. It is evil and that ‘s all there is to it. This whole climate change thing was done by IPCC, a group of “scientists”, except now we find out that NONE of them were actual scientists – just a bunch of crooks making things up. We need to spread that so that folks can at least hear about it. Whether or not they believe the truth at this point, is questionable though.

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