Eskimot, nuo antiamerikkalaiset pro-terroristit, aikovat (ryökäleet) haastaa USA:n oikeuteen ihmisoikeusrikkomuksesta. Ilmastonmuutos (ts. kasvihuoneilmiö), joka uhkaa eskimoiden olemassaoloa, on heidän mielestään ihmisoikeusrikkomus, josta USA 25% osuudella kasvihuonekaasupäästöistä on päävastuussa.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=593660
"But now the 155,000 Inuit, also known as Eskimoes, scattered along the northern rim of Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Siberia, say the climate change that threatens their existence is also a violation of their human rights, and that the US, responsible for 25 per cent of the planet's greenhouse gases, is largely responsible.
The human rights, say the Inuit are the most basic ones, the rights to life, health and property. "We're an adaptable people, but adaptability has its limits," says Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the head of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, the group recognised by the United Nations as representing the Inuit people. "Something is bound to give, and it's starting to give in the Arctic, and we're sending that early warning signal to the rest of the world."
Yesterday, at the international climate change conference in Buenos Aires, the Inuit were to make their move by announcing they would demand a ruling from the the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that as the prime source of greenhouse gas pollution, is in violation of the commission's own norms."
"The Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC) is an agency of the Organisation for American States, of which the US is a member. The headquarters are in Washington, a couple of blocks from the White House.
The Inuits have a voice in the OAS - and thus the commission - through Canada, where they have their own immense and partly autonomous territory of Nunavut, covering 1.9 million square kilometres, or 742,000 square miles, a fifth of Canada. But although the IAHRC can issue findings, recommendations, and rulings, it is not a court, and the US has predictably indicated it will not consider itself bound by anything that emerges.
But a ruling could be the basis for lawsuits. Already, a dozen US states, the city of New York and several NGOs have a tort case pending from 2002 against the federal government, charging that the Environmental Protection Agency has failed to discharge its duty to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
If the Inuit gain a ruling that their human rights have been violated, it could form the basis of a case against the US government in an international court, or class-action suits here against the government or US energy companies, akin to the suits which have led to multibillion-dollar judgments against the tobacco companies.
Until the Iraq war, no deed of the Bush administration has caused greater international anger than the refusal of the US, the world's largest economy and its largest polluter, to acknowledge that global warming is a problem, still less that it might be caused by human industrial activities."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=593660
"But now the 155,000 Inuit, also known as Eskimoes, scattered along the northern rim of Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Siberia, say the climate change that threatens their existence is also a violation of their human rights, and that the US, responsible for 25 per cent of the planet's greenhouse gases, is largely responsible.
The human rights, say the Inuit are the most basic ones, the rights to life, health and property. "We're an adaptable people, but adaptability has its limits," says Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the head of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, the group recognised by the United Nations as representing the Inuit people. "Something is bound to give, and it's starting to give in the Arctic, and we're sending that early warning signal to the rest of the world."
Yesterday, at the international climate change conference in Buenos Aires, the Inuit were to make their move by announcing they would demand a ruling from the the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that as the prime source of greenhouse gas pollution, is in violation of the commission's own norms."
"The Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC) is an agency of the Organisation for American States, of which the US is a member. The headquarters are in Washington, a couple of blocks from the White House.
The Inuits have a voice in the OAS - and thus the commission - through Canada, where they have their own immense and partly autonomous territory of Nunavut, covering 1.9 million square kilometres, or 742,000 square miles, a fifth of Canada. But although the IAHRC can issue findings, recommendations, and rulings, it is not a court, and the US has predictably indicated it will not consider itself bound by anything that emerges.
But a ruling could be the basis for lawsuits. Already, a dozen US states, the city of New York and several NGOs have a tort case pending from 2002 against the federal government, charging that the Environmental Protection Agency has failed to discharge its duty to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
If the Inuit gain a ruling that their human rights have been violated, it could form the basis of a case against the US government in an international court, or class-action suits here against the government or US energy companies, akin to the suits which have led to multibillion-dollar judgments against the tobacco companies.
Until the Iraq war, no deed of the Bush administration has caused greater international anger than the refusal of the US, the world's largest economy and its largest polluter, to acknowledge that global warming is a problem, still less that it might be caused by human industrial activities."
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Ei ne kaikki inuiitit ole pro-terroristeja. Minäkin tossa syksyllä kävin yhen Njuee Alon luonna. Siinä whiskey on the rocksia nauttiessamme Njuee voivotteli kuinka hidas tuo kasvihuoneilmiö on. Hän olisi halunnut rakentaa oman kasvihuoneen, jotta olisi saanut kasvattaa omat tomantit summuut raparperit. Tää Njuee oli nimittäen vegetaari ja sangen kyllääntyny jauhamaan hylkeennahkaa.
Mutta kuulehan Grusnij, eiköhän mennä käymään siellä Grönlannissa ja sanotan niille eskimoille, jotta ei kannata hupsia ihan kaikista.
Juopotellan välillä juhlavasti niiden saarelaisten kanssa.
Vai!
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