Following a natural disaster, the state could deliberately prevent human aid, resulting in atrocity, crime against humanity, or genocide.
Natural Disasters Spark Civil Wars
The long-standing belief that natural disasters, particularly drought, feed armed conflict, now has scientific support. The findings represent a warning that the worst aspects of global warming may not lie in the direct effects, as bad as they may be, but in the wars that will start as a result.
This is an attempt, by using the Eight Stages of Genocide by Gregory H. Stanton, to show how climate disintegration is a human rights issue in our own backyard. As a measure of awareness and hopefully of prevention, three stages of genocide are given in word only in between quoted materials. The last stages are not cited; since, only if intent to commit genocide can be shown by deliberately preventing human aid. Now, where is it that “...equipment and skills (are needed) to survive…?”
The Inuit in Alaska are the “canary in the coal mine.”
Canada’s Arctic disproportionately impacted by climate change
Natan Obed, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said Canada will actually miss out on the true rewards of climate action if it excludes indigenous perspectives.
“For the Inuit, in our homeland, we are on the forefront of climate change,” Obed said.
“When we talk about a global temperature increase of 1.5 or two degrees Celsuis, we don’t quite know what that means for the Arctic.”
Scientists have documented Arctic air temperatures warming twice as fast as elsewhere on the planet. Obed said the model his community has been using predicts the Arctic will experience two to four times the rate of warming felt elsewhere.
8 Stages of Genocide 1. Classification
...We distinguish and classify objects and people. All cultures have categories to distinguish between “us” and “them,”...
PROTECT TRIBAL NATURAL RESOURCES
Although only a fraction of their original territories, many tribes still control vast areas of land and water. Some tribal lands contain extractable resources such as oil, gas, and timber. Other lands are used for hunting, fishing, livestock grazing, and agriculture. The political and economic self-determination and self-sufficiency of most tribes depend on maintaining their land and natural resources.
The 8 Stages of Genocide 2. Symbolization:
We use symbols to name and signify our classifications...
GLOBAL WARMING & HUMAN RIGHTS GETS HEARING ON THE WORLD STAGE
Sheila so clearly described -- global warming has particular impacts on indigenous peoples throughout the hemisphere. The relationship between human rights and global warming must therefore be evaluated in the context of indigenous rights.
The 8 Stages of Genocide 3. Dehumanization:
Classification and symbolization are fundamental operations in all cultures. They become steps of genocide only when combined with dehumanization. Denial of the humanity of others is the step that permits killing with impunity.
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The authors also warned that people living in and near the Arctic would be badly affected, and called for communities to be provided with equipment and skills to survive. They took evidence from a variety of settlements in the region, finding many signs of stark changes already under way.
Once again, the Inuit are the canary in the coal mine with land melting underneath them and nothing is done.
The 8 Stages of Genocide 4.Organization:
Genocide is always collective because it derives its impetus from group identification. It is always organized, often by states but also by militias and hate groups. Planning need not be elaborate...
To add, African Americans are the canary in the coal mine when to comes to cleansing a race by use of a disaster — and nothing was done.
Reporter's notebook: George W. Bush and the week Hurricane Katrina hit
Pres Bush summons reporters to the Marine One hangar at his ranch (adjacent property, really) to make 1130am/ct [central time] statement on the forthcoming Hurricane Katrina - promising to do everything in the federal government power to respond and minimize suffering. He also spoke of the completed draft constitution in Iraq. And its importance. No questions.
White House Got Early Warning on Katrina
In the 48 hours before Hurricane Katrina hit, the White House received detailed warnings about the storm's likely impact, including eerily prescient predictions of breached levees, massive flooding, and major losses of life and property, documents show.
A 41-page assessment by the Department of Homeland Security's National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC), was delivered by e-mail to the White House's "situation room," the nerve center where crises are handled, at 1:47 a.m. on Aug. 29, the day the storm hit, according to an e-mail cover sheet accompanying the document.
Were the destructive forces of nature being conveniently used?
Katrina victims blame racism for slow aid
“They died from abject neglect,” retorted community activist Leah Hodges. “We left body bags behind... The people of New Orleans were stranded in a flood and were allowed to die.”
Angry evacuees described being trapped in temporary shelters where one New Orleans resident said she was “one sunrise from being consumed by maggots and flies.” Another woman said military troops focused machine gun laser targets on her granddaughter’s forehead. Others said their families were called racial epithets by police.
“No one is going to tell me it wasn’t a race issue,” said New Orleans evacuee Patricia Thompson, 53, who is now living in College Station, Texas. “Yes, it was an issue of race. Because of one thing: when the city had pretty much been evacuated, the people that were left there mostly was black.”
The state uses a disaster to kill, if the intent to commit genocide is shown by deliberately disallowing human aid or by exhibiting willful negligence prior to a disaster — in my opinion.
The problem with unintended consequences and intended ones is consequences are the same.
How Much Arctic Sea Ice Are You Melting? Scientists Have an Answer
For every metric ton of carbon dioxide released into the air, three square meters of Arctic sea ice disappear. If you do the math, this means the average American is melting roughly 50 square meters of those frozen reserves every year.
Are the destructive forces of nature being conveniently used?
Global warming is human rights issue: Nobel nominee How hot is it? So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic Circle are using air conditioners for the first time. And running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build igloos. And falling through melting ice when they hunt.
As long as there are those who idealize Stalin and private contractors like Blackwater exist,
The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina
It started immediately after the storm and flood hit, when civilian aid was scarce—but private security forces already had boots on the ground. Some, like Blackwater (which has since redubbed itself Xe), were under federal contract, while a host of others answered to wealthy residents and businessmen who had departed well before Katrina and needed help protecting their property from the suffering masses left behind. According Jeremy Scahill's reporting in The Nation, Blackwater set up an HQ in downtown New Orleans. Armed as they would be in Iraq, with automatic rifles, guns strapped to legs, and pockets overflowing with ammo, Blackwater contractors drove around in SUVs and unmarked cars with no license plates.
using a disaster to kill will be a possibility.
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Holodomor Facts and History:
The term Holodomor refers specifically to the brutal artificial famine imposed by Stalin's regime on Soviet Ukraine and primarily ethnically Ukrainian areas in the Northern Caucasus in 1932-33. In its broadest sense, it is also used to describe the Ukrainian genocide that began in 1929 with the massive waves of deadly deportations of Ukraine's most successful farmers (kurkuls, or kulaks, in Russian) as well as the deportations and executions of Ukraine's religious, intellectual and cultural leaders, culminating in the devastating forced famine that killed millions more innocent individuals.
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Michelle Goldberg, "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" p.160. ...Constitutional lawyer Edwin Vieira discussed Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion...which struck down that state's antisodomy law...Vieira accused Kennedy of relying on "Marxist, Leninist, Satanic principles drawn from foreign law... "What to do about Communist judges in thrall to the Devil? Vieira said, "Here again I draw on the wisdom of Stalin. We're talking about the greatest political figure of the twentieth century...He had a slogan, and it worked well for him whenever he ran into difficulty. No man, no problem.'"
Finally, Joseph Stalin, who was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953 once said, “When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die, it's a statistic.” Interestingly enough, Donald Trump mocked someone with disabilities and made false statements about the popular vote. I’m not completely comparing Trump to Stalin; I believe that’d be sound after he took office. He certainly admires evil men.
Trump won’t have an intelligent rationalization to quote as people die from one catastrophe or the other. I think he’ll tweet just one word —
sad.
An Open Letter From Scientists To President-Elect Trump On Climate Change
The letter urges Donald Trump to address climate change to help protect “America’s economy, national security, and public health and safety.” Every signatory of the letter are either pursuing or currently hold a PhD in relevant disciplines (with only a few exceptions for several leaders in their fields), and all are either American or currently work in the United States.