Posted on 02/15/2022 10:46:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
GENEVA (Reuters) - Pollution by states and companies is contributing to more deaths globally than COVID-19, a U.N. environmental report published on Tuesday said, calling for "immediate and ambitious action" to ban some toxic chemicals.
The report said pollution from pesticides, plastics and electronic waste is causing widespread human rights violations and at least 9 million premature deaths a year, and that the issue is largely being overlooked.
"Current approaches to managing the risks posed by pollution and toxic substances are clearly failing, resulting in widespread violations of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment," the report's author, U.N. Special Rapporteur David Boyd, concluded.
"I think we have an ethical and now a legal obligation to do better by these people," he told Reuters later in an interview.
Due to be presented next month to the U.N. Human Rights Council, which has declared a clean environment a human right, the document was posted on the Council's website on Tuesday.
It urges a ban on polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl, man-made substances used in household products such as non-stick cookware that have been linked to cancer and dubbed "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily.
It also seeks the clean-up of polluted sites and, in extreme cases, the possible relocations of affected communities - many of them poor, marginalized and indigenous - from so-called "sacrifice zones".
That term, originally used to describe nuclear test zones, was expanded in the report to include any heavily contaminated site or place rendered uninhabitable by climate change.
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2 weeks to flatten the curve!
Right on schedule.
Indeed, brought to you by the worldwide consortium of mask makers.
And the govt needs emergency powers to deal with it!!!
The lesson has been taught to those in power:
Special powers can be exercised by declarations of emergency.
So there will be more of them.
“pollution from pesticides, plastics and electronic waste”
So basically, the 3 things we need most to maintain a modern industrial society (besides fossil fuels).
No agenda there, though.
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Does this mean that if someone actually dies of covid related illnesses, they are going to write down death by pollution on the death cert?
wy69
Let us know when China abides by these new guidelines and we’ll pretend to consider them for ourselves.
“U.N. expert.”
Stopped right there.
5.56mm
“U.N” and “expert’ represents an oxymoronic phrase.
So that’s it! This is like official notice that covid is making its final bow and is exiting offstage.
We’ve been conditioned into slavish obedience, or so they think. They fully expect us to roll over and believe them.
How long before they declare a “planet emergency” and seize emergency powers to control us, for “climate change”?
Is there a vaccine for it? 🤔
Where’s Josef?
The Communist mantra, never let a warm body go to waste.
Just wait the two-three years when the unmentionable, real science denied, and devastating effects of the covid vaccines and boosters kick in, destroying countless lives of all ages, in all nations. Then they’ll wish they had ignored the doomsday environmental crap and put their energies towards the “real” disaster. The virus purposely coming from China.
Libtards are causing many more deaths than covid action is needed to remove the threat 🤪
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