Does the universal declaration of human rights provide any protection against such adverse consequences?

Question

for human populations, especially for those who did not cause those consequences and have not benefitied from global warming/global climate change

Answer 1

No, the United Nations is proposing that the 80% of the world's population living in developing nations be allowed to continue to grow their greenhouse gas emissions and their black carbon pollution unchecked.  That violates their justification for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

"Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind..."

In whose imagination is allowing growth, contributing to the possible extinction of the human species, not the most barbarous act (possibly the final one) in the history of the human species?

I have to agree with the skeptics here, that the U.N. is a group of politicians, all about a one-sided agenda.  

They know global warming is happening, but zero developing nations are curtailing their world-leading growth (including the world's largest emitter/polluter, China).  They know that sea level rise is coming as a result of their policy advocating growth, but they are moving no one from low lying coastal areas in places like Bangladesh.  Typical political two-faced baloney.

We don't know if anyone on this planet can be saved, but the U.N. polticians will be spouting feel-good (but illogical, divisive and highly damaging) rationalizations until their dying breath.

Tuba -

My interpretation of Articles 25 and 28 is that we all have a right to a world that isn't overpopulated and where over-growth isn't encouraged (sponsored by the U.N.).  When the U.N. makes clear headway against the issues of population and industrial/pollution growth, we can work together towards the Utopian picture they paint.

Answer 2

All agreements made in times of peace and plenty are meaningless when resources are scarce and war is imminent.  Protection will last as long or as briefly as those doing the protecting decide they'll last.  

The UN does not guarantee people protection from the forces of nature.  But they may aide them if they were too slow to get out of the way.

Answer 3

We got bombs, they got a piece of paper.

Think it won't happen?  It's already happening.

aside:

Communism is not socialism.  Communism is totalitarian collectivism. Socialism is democratic collectivism. Socialism forces us to work together for the benefit or all, regardless of the benefit or detriment to a particular individual or stakeholder.  Of course, Socialism would take power away from current stakeholders and so they are vehemently opposed to it.  And the pure capitalists will use any method to protect their power, including a 100 year campaign of propaganda, to dupe the libertarians into thinking the two are on the same side.  Everyone in the west lives in a mixed economy, it's just a matter of degree.

Answer 4

Article 25, 1.  would appear to apply, and Article 28.

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Yes JS, and I can't dispute it.  Many of these could be read a lot of ways.  One thing that's clear is that no Communist Government would be considered "legitimate" under these, and I suspect that violates the UN Charter.

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Dr. Blob, well put!

Answer 5

no-the world changes and nothing we can do about it.global warming was worse 18-1900 than now

Answer 6

If the world does continue to warm, the underdeveloped nations will owe the developed ones a debt of gratitude for increasing the earth's food production and creating a climate better suited for all life.

It's just too bad the CO2 theory is so flawed. It would be nice to be able to control our global climate for the good of all people.

Answer 7

The left always seems to want to defend socialists and communists so why should I be surprised that it doesn't understand the basic injustice of that form of government.

Exaggerating the negative effects of global warming constitutes a lie (IMO).

Solzhenytzin wrote  "The worst part of Communism, is being forced to live a lie."