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Climate change spells 'terrifying' future: UN rights chief
France24 ^ | July 3, 2023

Posted on 07/03/2023 3:01:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Geneva (AFP) – Climate change threatens to deliver a "truly terrifying" dystopian future of hunger and suffering, the United Nations' human rights chief warned Monday.

Volker Turk slammed world leaders for only thinking of the short term while dealing with the climate crisis.

Turk told a UN Human Rights Council debate on the right to food that extreme weather events were wiping out crops, herds and ecosystems, making it impossible for communities to rebuild and support themselves.

"More than 828 million people faced hunger in 2021. And climate change is projected to place up to 80 million more people at risk of hunger by the middle of this century," said Turk.

"Our environment is burning. It's melting. It's flooding. It's depleting. It's drying. It's dying," he said, evoking a "dystopian future".

"Addressing climate change is a human rights issue... there is still time to act. But that time is now," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 07/03/2023 3:01:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Qué será, será
The weather is up to me
The future will suck, you’ll see
Qué será, será


2 posted on 07/03/2023 3:12:48 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Turk has investments ya know


3 posted on 07/03/2023 3:14:09 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Chicken littles are everywhere.


4 posted on 07/03/2023 3:14:34 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: joma89
U.N. out of U.S.A.

U.S.A out of U.N.




5 posted on 07/03/2023 3:27:19 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The “Climate Change” HOAX is ONLY TO CONTROL US IN EVERYTHING WE DO AND HAVE!! EVERYTHING!!


6 posted on 07/03/2023 3:37:38 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And it’s all fake.


7 posted on 07/03/2023 3:48:02 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Turk told a UN Human Rights Council debate on the right to food that extreme weather events were wiping out crops, herds and ecosystems ...

Isn't it the Dutch government that is wiping out the farms and farmers while the Irish government that is killing off 200,000 cattle? Why blame nature when certain governments are beginning to starve the people out?


8 posted on 07/03/2023 3:51:50 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change HOAX spells 'terrifying' future: UN rights chief

Fixed it.

9 posted on 07/03/2023 4:07:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So what he's saying is that you may need to turn the cool knob 'up' on your air-conditioner or heat-pump? The horror... The horror... The horror.


10 posted on 07/03/2023 4:08:03 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These are the skunks behind geo-engineering and all the bad policy that is manufacturing starvation and all the misery in order to take control.

Think how much better our planet would be with these types no longer around.


11 posted on 07/03/2023 4:11:11 AM PDT by dforest
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To: magooey

Yes! They create the problem and claim they are the only ones who can fix it but in order to do that people must die.


12 posted on 07/03/2023 4:13:15 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They always complain about the weather and how awful it is. But never any solutions but electric cars and solar panels.


13 posted on 07/03/2023 4:20:58 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And your government is hard at work trying to make that dystopia come true.
Eet zee bugs, serf.


14 posted on 07/03/2023 4:24:22 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: dforest

:: in order to do that people must die. ::

And any survivors must pay higher taxes to be spared the same fate.


15 posted on 07/03/2023 4:25:26 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Converting precious farm lands into solar farms...is absolutely stupid....and that’s here in NYS.


16 posted on 07/03/2023 4:44:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The climate cultist like to lay the BS on layers deep.

If all these idiots dropped dead there’d be tens of thousands of acres to plant food and raise cattle after solar farms are torn down, happy whales and birds when wind farms torn down, plenty of fuel for my vehicles and a lot more money NOT spent on stupidity.


17 posted on 07/03/2023 4:45:02 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
One of the major themes in William Gibson's novel The Peripheral is what he calls "the jackpot". A hypothetical confluence of climate change, epidemic disease, and famine which reduces the human population by 90% over a period of a few decades. His future society postulates a very small population of rich criminal families, supported by some startling technology in lieu of a working class.

Our present trajectory is lining us up for a jackpot all right, not because of global climate change. Oh, no. Ironically it's being forced upon us by the climate catastrophists whose insane anti-energy policies are crippling western cultures and economies.

And we certainly have our share and more of criminal oligarchies ready to step in, don't we?

18 posted on 07/03/2023 4:51:49 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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"Addressing climate change is a human rights issue... there is still time to act. But that time is now," he said.

To do WHAT?

Unless you shut down the global economy, including China and India, there's nothing that can be done. However, doing so would endanger many peoples' lives--millions would die.

The problem with your Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory is people. There are too many.

Killing people would be genocide.

If somebody has to die, why not start with you and the believers of your AGW theory?

19 posted on 07/03/2023 5:11:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“It’s not we, your overlords, making you miserable! It’s that terrifying Climate Change!!! Which, you should know, you’re responsible for!!!”


20 posted on 07/03/2023 6:34:29 AM PDT by drwoof
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