{"id":60334,"date":"2025-07-30T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60334"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:48:53","slug":"are-we-willing-to-go-back-to-the-nineteenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60334","title":{"rendered":"Are We Willing To Go Back To The Nineteenth Century?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about several decisions by various international courts. The combined affect of these decisions is to make fossil fuels illegal. Hang on to your gas stove!<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

It’s a piece in The New York Times–for him, it was the international version with a different headline–that argues that several decisions by various international courts amount to outlawing the extraction and use of fossil fuels.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s hard to argue with their conclusion because I am not an international lawyer, but let’s assume that the claim is true, as it appears to be on its face.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rulings by the International Court of Justice, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea all suggest that the climate harms resulting from the burning of fossil fuels violate international law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> article states:<\/p>\n

The I.C.J.\u2019s unanimous opinion reinforced these conclusions and broadened their reach, stating that countries must protect citizens from the \u201curgent and existential threat\u201d of climate change. When a country fails to curb greenhouse gas emissions \u2014 whether by producing or consuming fossil fuels, approving new exploration to find them or subsidizing the industry \u2014 it may be held liable for \u201can internationally wrongful act,\u201d the court\u2019s 15 judges said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This makes it much harder for any government or company to say that rules don\u2019t apply to them or they don\u2019t have to act. Read together, these three landmark legal rulings leave no doubt that continuing fossil fuel production and use, let alone expanding it, violates the law. It is a cease-and-desist notice to fossil fuel producers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This isn’t the dumbest thing I have ever heard, but it’s close.<\/p>\n

Never forget:<\/p>\n

On March 30, 2016, I posted the following (here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Have doubts? Then listen to the words of former\u00a0United Nations climate official\u00a0Ottmar Edenhofer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOne has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,\u201d said Edenhofer, who\u00a0co-chaired the U.N.\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So what is the goal of environmental policy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe redistribute de facto the world\u2019s wealth by climate policy,\u201d said\u00a0Edenhofer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever you see someone claiming global governance and talking about climate change, consider the above quote.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, follow the link above to read the entire article at Hot Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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