The United Nations may resort to military action against states that defy its mandates on global climate action, according to Ole Wæver, a prominent international relations professor at the University of Copenhagen.
In an interview with ABC News in Australia, Professor Wæver cautions that what he sees as “climate inaction” might draw the U.N. into considering other means to ensure its goals are met, even if that leads to global armed conflict.
Professor Wæver says more resistance to change could potentially threaten democracy although the U.N. would counter that the end justified the means in much the same way countries like Greece had their debt crisis solutions forced on them by European Union bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg.
“The United Nations Security Council could, in principle, tomorrow decide that climate change is a threat to international peace and security,” he says.
“And then it’s within their competencies to decide ‘and you are doing this, you are doing this, you are doing this, this is how we deal with it’.”
He believes classifying climate change as a security issue could leave the door open to more extreme policy responses. [See the full interview below]
“That’s what happens when something becomes a security issue, it gets the urgency, the intensity, the priority, which is helpful sometimes, but it also lets the dark forces loose in the sense that it can justify problematic means,” he says.
This urgency, he says, could lead to more abrupt – and essentially undemocratic – action at an international level.
“If there was something that was decided internationally by some more centralized procedure and every country was told ‘this is your emission target, it’s not negotiable, we can actually take military measures if you don’t fulfill it’, then you would basically have to get that down the throat of your population, whether they like it or not,” he says.
“A bit like what we saw in southern Europe with countries like Greece and the debt crisis and so on. There were decisions that were made for them and then they just had to have a more or less technocratic government and get it through.”
Professor Wæver made his predictions last month on the eve of the United Nations COP25 climate conference now underway in Madrid, Spain.
Almost 25,000 delegates and 1,500 journalists have flown into the Spanish capital to attend the two-week long meeting.
COP25 will consider a wide agenda of global action including implementing taxes on developed countries to transfer wealth to nations dealing with “the cost of drought, floods, and superstorms made worse by rising temperatures,” as Breitbart News reported.
President Donald Trump officially withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, which COP25 is a continuation thereof, in October as part of an election promise to voters, saying he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”
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Please, someone de-fund these clowns already.
The UN would be crushed. It doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to peacekeeping or military interventions.
This guy is a NAZI a climate NAZI. How far are they’re willing to go to impose their ideology. This is a declaration of war against other people that have a different option on climate change. aim not afraid that the UN will become a NAZI organization and willed us to an ew holocaust but people like this are frightful because they think they have the right to decide for others. if I see all these youngsters in our streets shouting that CO2 is pollution and to get rid of it it depicts what the nazi’s did to their youngsters in thirties. Hitlerjugend on the streets. Its about time we fight back and not let this happen again..
When they march into China, I hope they take a few extra rounds.
What alternate reality has Ole Wæver stepped out of? There is no way that the UN would try to take on the US, Brazil, Australia, and Russia.
I am no fan of the UN but we need to be fair. No one in the UN has endorsed this idea. This is just some crack pop professor.
Evict the United Nations revoke all their World Herratage Sites and Biosphear Reserves tear up all those UN Treaties lets turn the UN facility into Homeless Shelter for all those Homeless Vets so they can sleep in a nice warm bed instead of a Cardboard Box
Bring it on dipshits. Re-education time for the drone army.
Terminate the U.N.’s lease in New York City. This potential call-to-arms is practically a warning of war against this country. Not that I’m worried it will come to that, but why do we let this go on?
Donald Trump would have a belly laugh then have the US issue a veto in the Security Council. It will never happen while he is president.
It will be inteesting to see how the UN would enforce such military action, they don’t have a standing army.
You need row boats as well.
BTW,
How green is it to send a conventional armed force anyplace? Does somebody have a bicycle-mounted army the UN can borrow?
This is about the silliest thing I’ve ever read.
Does this Professor Waever know that “UN forces” are typically made up of the US military plus 4 or 5 self-important-looking guys with blue hats? Good luck getting the UN to enforce anything, because the people that have to do the enforcing are the same people that the UN thinks need to be forced.
Dumb donkey!
When they start talking nonsense like this you KNOW they have lost. And lost it totally.
The end is nigh for the climate fraudsters.
This is exactly why we have never let the UN have its own funding stream and it has to depend on contributions from its member countries. The UN has been pushing for years for The Law of the Sea Treaty, which would give them control of the world’s oceans and all related commerce and fishing as well as an independent funding stream. Fortunately, the Law has never been adopted, dodging a serious bullet aimed at the freedom of the world.
Has no one noticed that, when the UN goes into a war-torn area, the death rate always goes up, as they shoot both sides of the conflict. They also seem to be eager to set up drug and prostitution enterprises as soon as they can.
So now the Useless Nations wants to send in its Blue Er Green Helmets to enforce the eir demands how soon will be wearing the Body Armor the Imperial Storm Troopers wear? withoders of Shoot to Kill all those who refuse to obey their demands.Its way past time to totaly evict the UN and revoke all its World Heratge sites and Biosphear Reserves and lets just tear down that whole UN facility its a eyesore to anyone but brainless liberals
This guy is a NAZI a climate NAZI. How far are they’re willing to go to impose their ideology. This is a declaration of war against other people that have a different option on climate change. aim not afraid that the UN will become a NAZI organization and willed us to an ew holocaust but people like this are frightful because they think they have the right to decide for others. if I see all these youngsters in our streets shouting that CO2 is pollution and to get rid of it it depicts what the nazi’s did to their youngsters in thirties. Hitlerjugend on the streets. Its about time we fight back and not let this happen again..