Governments around the world are not responding to climate change hysteria as activists have hoped they would. It is one thing to make commitments at international conferences, something else to impoverish your voters when pretty much everyone understands that, with China and India not on board, no one else’s actions matter, even if you buy the hype.
What to do? Use the force of law to compel undemocratic obedience:
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Wednesday will reveal a host of proposed penalties the U.N. can implement against countries that defy climate diktats.
Activists hope the legal opinion from the ICJ judges will have far-reaching consequences in the fight against “climate change”….
This is what is cynically known as the “rule of law.”
Andrew Raine, deputy director of the U.N. Environment Programme’s law division, said frustration over the pace of climate action had spurred people, organisations and countries to turn to the courts to seek remediation.
“When political systems fall short, the law is increasingly seen as a tool for driving ambition and enforcing commitments that have been made,” he told AFP.
Political systems are “falling short” by recognizing the reality that climate hype is 90% BS, and that the proposed solution of human impoverishment will make things worse, not better. How to overcome rational opposition? With court orders, apparently.
Of course, the powers of the International Court of Justice are circumscribed:
[S]ome critics argue the lawfare ruling will be toothless, as ICJ advisory opinions are not binding and major polluters can choose simply to ignore it, with the United States for one having withdrawn from compulsory ICJ jurisdiction in 1986.
No U.S., no China, no India. Any country that bows before an ICJ ruling will be committing economic and social suicide. And if the U.N. seriously tries to enforce an ICJ ruling with “penalties,” it will hasten the demise of that organization–a consummation devoutly to be wished.
The real moral of this story is the folly of yielding the slightest portion of our sovereignty to any international organization.
