Climate genocide, climate criminals, IPCC Report & UK BCCJ for Justice

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Gideon Polya

Climate genocide is here. The IPCC Report is out - the global warming CRISIS is due to MAN. But which Men, specifically? The UK BCCJ - Bring Climate Criminals to Justice - wants to prosecute those responsible.

The aim of the British organization BCCJ (Bring Climate Criminals to Justice) is to establish a legal process in the UK and abroad to facilitate the criminal prosecution of Government Ministers and key business leaders whose policies and activities contribute to the mass loss of life which Climate Change is certain to now cause.

The BCCJ is currently concentrating on 2 major areas - (a) the threat from global warming to low-lying and densely populated Bangladesh in which 90 million people are threatened with displacement this century and (b) getting UK organizations to unite for litigation against government and corporate climate criminals.

For details of the excellent BCCJ organization see: http://www.climatecriminals.co.uk/ .

The principal global warming offenders are Bush-ite America and Bush-ite Australia which have the world's worst annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution; Bush-ite America is the world's worst greenhouse gas polluter; Bush-ite Australia is the world's biggest coal exporter; and neither Bush-ite US or Bush-ite Australia will sign Kyoto or constrain their profligate carbon pollution.

The actions of the Bush-ite US and Australian Administrations are selfish, greedy, dishonest and in the last analysis RACIST because the deadliest impacts of Global warming will be felt in Third World countries such as Bangladesh.

90 million Bangladeshis are facing displacement from First World-driven global warming and sea level rises. Bangladesh is frequently subject to inundation from floods and storm surges and already an Indian island in nearby West Bengal has disappeared under the waves. Bangladesh is facing US-, Australia- and First World-driven Climate Genocide. Climate Genocide is racism and mass murder.

Bengal (Bangla) - a world leader in agriculture, terxtiles and civil administration 250 years ago, before the British invasion and occupation in 1757 - has been subject to 4 major man-made Holocausts variously involving the West: the Great Bengal Famine (1769-1770; 10 million victims); the World War 2 Bengal Famine (1943-1944; 4 million victims; 1940s demographic deficit 10 million; horrendous military and civilian sexual abuse of starving women and girls; possibly due to a deliberate British "scorched earthpolicy" to forestall Japanese invasion from Burma; first called a Holocaust in 1944 and - unlike the horrendous Jewish Holocaust, the genocide of 6 million Jews - has been largely "rubbed out of history" by racist, lying, holocaust-ignoring, holocaust -denying mainstream media, politicians and historians); 1947 Partition (hundreds of thousands killed, ultimately due to irresponsible British policies); the 1971 Bengal Holocaust (3 million Bengalis, 80% men and boys, murdered by the US-armed and US-backed West Pakistan Army after Bengali victory in democratic elections; 0.3 million women and girls raped; 10 million refugees).

Now Bangladesh is facing a FIFTH Holocaust to beat all Holocausts - inundation by rising sea levels due to Anglo-American profligacy and First World greenhouse gas pollution. As a humanitarian scientist I have been warning about this impending disaster for a decade - in nation-wide Australian broadcasts (e.g. see: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s19040.htm and http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm ) , numerous articles in journals and books and a book ("Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History" - now out of print but for details and related articles see: http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/ , http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/2005/07/forgotten-holocaust-194344-bengal.html ,
and http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/ ).

The World has to act against global warming and in particular CLIMATE GENOCIDE, CLIMATE HOLOCAUST and CLIMATE CRIMINALS. The BCCJ initiative for legal action against Climate Criminals must be applauded.

The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change has just been released (2 February 2007) (for details of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assesssment Report see: http://www.ipcc.ch/act and, for example: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1995348,00.html ).

The 2007 IPCC Report in summary:

1. Global warming is occurring.
2. The probability that this is caused by natural climatic processes is less than 5%.
3. The probability that global warming is caused by HUMAN emissions of greenhouse gases is greater than 90%.
4. World temperatures will probably rise by 1.8 to 4°C (3.25 to 7.2°F) during the 21st century and that:
5. Sea levels will probably rise by 28 to 43cm (11 to 17 inches)
6. Probability greater than 90% that there will be frequent heat waves and heavy rainfall
7. Probability greater than 66% that there will be an increase in droughts, tropical cyclones & high tides.

For further details about the IPCC see: http://www.ipcc.ch/act and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change ( for the IPCC Third Assessment Report see: http://www.greenfacts.org/climate-change/ipcc/ipcc.htm ).

Ordinary people CAN do something NOW about global warming - impelled by the dire warnings of IPCC and other scientists and the foot-dragging, denial and resolute failure to act of the Bush-ite government climate criminals. However it will take a long time before the major US, Australian and First World climate criminals are brought to justice.

Ordinary people around the world - either individually or collectively - must act NOW by comprehensive Intra-national and Inter-national boycotts against those complicit in Climate Genocide. Bush, the world's top terrorist, is also the World's top climate criminal.

For starters, Americans and Australians should think of their Children and their Grandchildren and NEVER AGAIN vote for the climate genocidist, climate criminal Bush-ites.

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npat

I will want to spend more time looking into this article. Concerning the ending comments, I think it is important for everyone to understand that the 21st century will not be a happy place. It is urgent that people of child bearing age understand that now and use that information in making a decision to not bring their own into that kind of place, in my view, and the guilt alone could become overbearing for those who are the most caring of their own and others.

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#1 - Sat Feb 3, 2007 4:23 PM EST

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Gideon Polya

npat - thanks for the thoughtful comment.

The world's foremost bioethicist, Professor Peter Singer (Princeton University) , arguably the most influential living philosopher, argues that we are responsible for what we do and also for what we do not do.

Thus Professor Singer has extremely controversially argued for the humane "active euthanasia" of severely disabled infants - I personally don't like his actual proposals (from the perspective of actually caring for several severely physically disabled children over 2 decades) but from this same perspective I must agree with his moral generality about the moral responsibility equivalence of "active" and "passive" causation of death.

At present many experienced hospital doctors will administer pain relief but not sustenance to such infants by way of "passive euthanasia". According to Professor Singer (see: Kuhse, H. & Singer, P. (1985), Should the Baby Live? The Problem of Handicapped Infants (Oxford University Press, Oxford)):

"Doctors who deliberately leave a baby to die when they have the awareness, the ability, and the opportunity to save the baby's life, are just as morally responsible for the death as they would be if they had brought it about by a deliberate , positive action."

This same moral dictum relating to "passive" and "active" killing has also been applied to "passive genocide" in Coalition-occupied Iraq where the annual under-5 infant deaths total 122,000 and the per capita medical expenditure permitted by the Occupiers is only $58 as compared to about $7,000 in Metropolitan America (see: link and link ).

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#2 - Sat Feb 3, 2007 5:11 PM EST

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npat

I think you understand what I meant but I want to make it more clear what I meant above due to the sensitivity of this topic. My comment was in reference to making a decision a year or more ahead... not to have children of their own. I think if people want children it would best to adopt (perhaps an older child if no babies are available).

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#3 - Sat Feb 3, 2007 7:31 PM EST

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Gideon Polya

npat - my general comment on the ethics of global warming is, following Professor Singer's dictum, that we can be actively responsible (excess carbon dioxide emission etc, voting for greenhouse sceptics and pro-polluters) or passively responsible (failure to inform others, failure to act within our legitimate capabilities as responsibel citizens against greenhouse gas pollution, excessive production and energy inefficiency).

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#3.1 - Sun Feb 4, 2007 7:08 AM EST

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npat

I consider National Weather Service supervisors and directors and NOAA administers to be both actively and passively responsible for their wrong doings on climate change and global warming. Someone should hold them accountable (as Bush used to proclaim).

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#4 - Sun Feb 4, 2007 12:32 PM EST

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Keld Bach

Great article, Gideon. Something to think about...

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#5 - Sun Feb 4, 2007 1:43 PM EST

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Henry VII

Good article, but factually incorrect.

The principal global warming offenders are Bush-ite America and Bush-ite Australia which have the world's worst annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution...

The United States is 11th and Australia is 12th. Close though.

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#6 - Mon Feb 5, 2007 1:30 AM EST

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Gideon Polya

Pharoah: thank you for your comments. The US, Canada and Australia have populations (2005) of about 300 million, 32 million and 20 million, respectively - the "ten nations with higher per capita greenhouse gas pollution" include the small but oil-rich states of UAE (3.1 million), Kuwait (2.7 million), Trinidad & Tobago (1.3 million), Bahrein (0.8 million), Qatar (0.6 million) and tiny Luxembourg (0.5 million), Netherlands Antilles (0.2 million), Guam (0.2 million), Virgin Islands (0.1 million) and Aruba (0.1 million).

The US is the largest greenhouse gas polluter and Australia the world's largest coal exporter; neither the Bush American Administration nor the extreme right-wing Bush-ite Australian Government will sign up to Kyoto or bite the bullet and curb greenhouse gas pollution; and both governments have an outrageous record of irresponsible, anti-science "global warming denial" and intimidation and pressuring of top climate change scientists.

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#6.1 - Mon Feb 5, 2007 3:39 AM EST

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Henry VII

Neither the Bush American Administration nor the extreme right-wing Bush-ite Australian Government will sign up to Kyoto or bite the bullet and curb greenhouse gas pollution.

This is because Kyoto puts quite an unfair burden on us, leaving Europe to sign and forget it. Kyoto is a financially unacceptable model. I'm not talking Iraq war expensive, I'm talking bankrupt nation expensive. That said, the world needs to come together and fund research to curb emissions affordably.

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#6.2 - Mon Feb 5, 2007 5:28 AM EST

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Henry VII

Further, developed nations will - of course emit more. When there is a relatively small population compared to the size of the country [as in US, Australia, and Canada] - emissions will rise.

We can't just look and see who emits the most or the most per capita. It's not black and white.

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#7 - Mon Feb 5, 2007 1:34 AM EST

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Gideon Polya

Pharoah - I would agree that it is not necessarily "black and white" metaphorically i.e. there may be "special circumstances" (e.g. the oil-rich Gulf States don't have hydro power and possibly not geothermal or windpower possibilities although they are perfect for solar power, the cost of which is steadily declining).

However the crucial issue is per capita income and the financial ability of poor countries to implement responsible policies. The worst BIG country per capita greenhouse gas polluters (US, Canada and Australia) are also among the richest countries in the world and also have access to all major alternative energy provision possibilities - what is driving these RICH and physically BIG countries energy-wise is pure greed (coupled with denial, steadfast ignoring of culpability and what must be called "politically correct racism").

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#7.1 - Mon Feb 5, 2007 3:50 AM EST

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Henry VII

What is driving these RICH and physically BIG countries energy-wise is pure greed.

See above. How is the need to get from home to work driven by greed? Really, if we want to place blame - we can place it on the oil producing and coal mining countries for not limiting output.

It's easy to blame. Not as easy to come up with a viable solution.

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#7.2 - Mon Feb 5, 2007 5:33 AM EST

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Gideon Polya

There are a number of viable partial solutions available already (and being applied already and urgently by responsible Western European countries) involving (a) decreased energy use per se; (b) increased energy efficiency; (c) market place solutions involving carbon credits trading; (d) low carbon impact power production systems (geothermal, tidal, solar, wind) to replace fossil fuel-based energy production (however the overall installation to decommissioning cost of the nuclear cycle is far from carbon neutral - it can cost up to 40% of the carbon pollution of a gas-fired power station).

International will could see marketplace solutions involving application of personal and collective comprehensive international Sanctions and Boycotts to irresponsible rogue countries (e.g. Bush America and Bush-ite Australia) criminally endangering the Planet on behalf of sectional corporate interests. Indeed, as advocated by the UK BCCJ, criminal prosecutions of the political and corporate "climate criminals" involved in greedily foisting global warming and climate genocide on the world might well encourage compliance with international humanitarian standards - and help save the Planet.

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#8 - Mon Feb 5, 2007 7:27 AM EST

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