Gideon Polya, “We must save the Planet from Climate Genocide. Do-or Die-Twenty Tens”, MWC News, 2 January 2010.
We must save the Planet from Climate Genocide. Do-or-Die Twenty Tens.
The 21st century should have been the first century of peace but Bush and Obama have given us a first decade of war and genocide. In the do-or-die 2010s (twenty tens) civilized humanity must save the planet from Climate Genocide that threatens 10 billion avoidable deaths from unaddressed, man-made global warming.
Holocaust involves the deaths of a large number of people but Genocide is very precisely defined in International Law as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group” as set out by Article 2 of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention: “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
The semantic “key” to this internationally agreed, legal definition of Genocide is “intent”. Thus the “intent’ of a serial killer is not abolished by his refusal to confess or otherwise explicitly declare “intent” – it can be clearly established simply by the evidence of sustained, remorseless actions leading to serial deaths. Likewise, for example, the sustained, remorseless actions (and inactions) of the British caused the deaths of 6-7 million Indians in 1943-1945 from starvation and starvation-exacerbated disease. [1].
Over the 2009 Christmas holiday period I have created a series of detailed, documented, and regularly updated websites that set out documented, authoritative data and expert opinions about current, ongoing Genocides from the 1960s to the 2010s that are still overwhelmingly ignored by academics, journalists, politicians and media in the Western Murdochracies.
Palestinian Genocide (0.3 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths, 0.2 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 7 million refugees). [2].
Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide (4.5 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths, 2.4 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 3-4 million refugees plus 2.5 million NW Pakistan Pashtun refugees. [3].
Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide (2.5 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths, 0.9 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 5-6 million refugees; 1990-2009, 4.4 million violent and non-violent excess deaths, 2.1 million under-5 infant deaths). [4].
Climate Holocaust, Climate Genocide (man-made global warming increasingly impacts the current 22 million annual avoidable deaths from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease; estimates from top UK climate scientists Dr James Lovelock and Professor Kevin Anderson point to 10 billion avoidable deaths this century due to unaddressed global warming, this including 6 billion infants, 3 billion Muslims in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis). [5].
Aboriginal Holocaust, Aboriginal Genocide (the Australian Indigenous population dropped from circa 1 million to 0.1 million in the first century post-invasion; currently 9,000 Aborigines die avoidably each year, mostly from horrendous neglect, out of an Indigenous population of 0.5 million; Apartheid Australia is involved in all the above ongoing holocausts and genocides, has an appalling secret genocide history (involvement in 20 genocides (of which 6 are ongoing), is the world’s worst annual per capita greenhouse gas polluter, and helped the US sabotage the vital December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference). [6].
What can decent human beings do to stop the carnage and save the planet? Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity, inaction kills and inaction is complicity. Decent folk must:
(a) inform everyone they can;
(b) urge and apply sanctions and boycotts against the genocidal, terracidal US Alliance people, politicians, corporations and countries; and
(c) demand criminal prosecution before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of all those involved in ongoing war crimes, genocide, ecocide, climate genocide and terracide.
A Happy New Year for all decent Humanity!
[1]. Bengal Famine, 2008 BBC broadcast involving Dr Gideon Polya , Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and other scholars: http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot/bengalfamine_programme.html ).
[2]. Palestinian Genocide http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ .
[3]. Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide: http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ .
[4]. Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ .
[5]. Climate Holocaust, Climate Genocide: http://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ .
[6]. Aboriginal Holocaust, Aboriginal Genocide : http://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ .
[7]. Dr Gideon Polya, Formal complaint to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court re Australian Government involvement in the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide and Climate Genocide, March 2008: http://climateemergency.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html .
[8]. Gideon Polya, Global avoidable mortality since 1950’, G. M. Polya, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya .
[9]. “Hey, hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000”, Bellaciao: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article18750 .