Posted on 12/02/2024 11:16:41 AM PST by Olog-hai
The top United Nations court took up the largest case in its history on Monday, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change that they feel endangers their very survival. They demand that major polluting nations be held to account.
After years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters, the U.N. General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice last year for an opinion on “the obligations of States in respect of climate change.”
“The stakes could not be higher. The survival of my people and so many others is on the line,” said Arnold Kiel Loughman, attorney-general of the Vanuatu archipelago nation. …
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I thought that all of the worlds islands were supposed to already be under water by now.
Without any new land being created all current land would sink into the oceans. The earth would take on the look of a round ball of extremely acidic salt water. It is the nature of land to sink under the sea.
Not that I think it would necessarily happen, but how would you legislate against rising seas wiping out an island? That is not man-caused.
These kind of people should be left to their own defenses without any help from the public.
Islands that are 2 to 6 feet above sea level, largely sand-covered coral with loose soil, are subject to wave action from tides, typhoons, earthquake-induced tsunamis (such as 9.0 Fukushima and 9.2 Indian Ocean earthquakes that shifted the Earth off its axis), deforestation and groundwater pumping of (fresh) water by ever-increasing populations. It’s not unreasonable to suggest that those who migrated to Hawaii, Jamaica, the Marshalls, Malaysia, the Bengals, Manila Bay, China’s Sea and or other islands 100’s of years ago did so because their original islands also ‘sank’ from similar causes.
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