Climate Crisis or Climate Imperialism? U. of Nairobi prof: The ‘green’ ideology is designed to keep low & middle income countries under the yoke of perpetual poverty’
By Marc Morano
August 2, 2024
11:30 am
Climate Crisis or Climate Imperialism?
By Reginald M.J. Oduor, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Nairobi
For decades now, the United Nations (UN) and its collaborators have been saying that humanity faces an existential threat due to “global warming” caused by human activities (“anthropogenic factors”). Then, in July 2023, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, declared, “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived. ” CNBC reported that Guterres relied on data released by the European Union and the World Meteorological Organization indicating that July 2023 was set to be the hottest month on record.
The UN has so intensely popularised the “climate crisis” narrative over the past five decades or so that anyone who questions it is now routinely dismissed as a “climate sceptic”, “climate denier”, “conspiracy theorist” or as “anti-science”. Nevertheless, just as Socrates famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living, so John Stuart Mill correctly observed that an unexamined belief is not worth holding because it is a mere dogma rather than a living truth.
The “climate crisis” narrative: A historical outline
The “climate crisis” narrative made its debut with the First UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden in 1972. Subsequently, in the same year, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed its Resolution 2997 XXVII to establish the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to monitor the state of the environment and coordinate responses to the world’s greatest environmental challenges. Environmental ethics also emerged as a distinct area of philosophical inquiry during the 1970s. In 1983, the UNGA appointed the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). The report of the Commission, popularly known as the Brundtland Report and published in 1987, called for sustainable development to deal with the twin challenges of environmental conservation and human development. In 1988, UNEP and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments on the current state of knowledge about “climate change”.
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