UNSC Can't Agree That Climate Breakdown Is Security Threat, Thx. To Votes By China, Russ., Others

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The UN Security Council failed to agree on Wednesday that climate change is an international peace and security issue, leading the United States to call the lack of consensus "pathetic" and "shortsighted."

Russia, China and several other council members argued that climate change shouldn't be discussed in the UN body responsible for world peace, but rather by agencies such as the UN Environment Program and the UN Economic and Social Council.

Britain joined the US in arguing that it is appropriate for the council to address the climate change's security implications, noting that dramatically changing weather patterns are leading to flooding, drought, dwindling food stocks and other crises that threaten global security and peace. The latest such crisis is the famine that the UN declared Wednesday in two regions of southern Somalia.

The president of the small Pacific island state of Nauru, threatened by rising seas that scientists blame on climate change, expressed his disappointment with the council's failure to agree on the issue. "The Security Council must reflect current geopolitical realities if it is to remain relevant," acknowledged Nauru's President Marcus Stephen.

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http://www.todayszaman.com/news-251156-un-council-fails-to-agree-on-climate-change.html

[fascisthunter]

1. What a sick, depraved World we live in

[pscot]

2. Planet of the Apes

Burroughs was right. It's a mistake to let your asshole do your thinking for you.