Courts are increasingly linking “climate change” with human rights

Courts are increasingly linking “climate change” with human rights

Rhoda Wilson

On 29 March, the United Nations General Assembly (“UNGA”) adopted the resolution A/77/L.58 requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) on the obligations of countries that are members of the United Nations (“UN”) regarding climate change. 

Part of the request relates to the human rights implications of climate change.  It references to international human rights instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Commenting on the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights in favour of a small group of elderly Swiss women who were backed by Greenpeace, the Off Guardian offered an explanation of why climate change is being linked to human rights.

By tying climate change to human rights, governments can justify enforcing increasingly strict climate change policies while simultaneously making it appear that the judiciary is forcing their hand. 

Now they can effectively claim “You’ve got to switch to an electric car, or you’re infringing other people’s human rights”, but also, “don’t blame us our hands are tied by judges.”

It also enables a propaganda campaign of escalating divisive language, mirroring the vaccinated vs unvaccinated messaging during the “pandemic.”

Remember how we were told, “The unvaccinated are filling ICUs and making another lockdown more likely”? Well, in the future, that will become “climate change deniers are violating your human rights by refusing to use a smart meter.”

Climate Change Court Cases are on the rise. Here’s why, Off Guardian, 11 April 2024

It must be remembered that human rights are bestowed by governments and, increasingly, supranational organisations.  Human rights are changeable and can be changed by those who believe they have the authority to write the rules for mankind to follow.  Inalienable rights or, if you prefer the older spelling, unalienable rights cannot be changed, transferred, removed or denied by man.

In the video below, Makia Freeman highlights the growing trend of legal cases to link climate change to human rights.  In the description below his video on Rumble or Bitchute, he has included links to the articles he discussed.

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