UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday.Ban thinks that global warming is the cause? Sorry, but I don't buy it.
“The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change,” Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column. UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons. “This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming,” the South Korean diplomat wrote.
“It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought,” Ban said in the Washington daily. When Darfur’s land was rich, he said, black farmers welcomed Arab herders and shared their water, he said.
With the drought, however, farmers fenced in their land to prevent overgrazing. “For the first time in memory, there was no longer enough food and water for all. Fighting broke out,” he said.
This wasn't simply a bunch of armed forces on both sides killing each other because of drought and climate change in the region, but the slaughter of civilians condoned by the Sudanese government. The Sudanese government did nothing to stop the slaughter, and was fully involved in a civil war before the genocide that killed and displaced millions more. UN peacekeepers were nowhere to be found and only will begin to police what's left of Darfur in coming months.
And he thinks that it is the result of man made global warming to boot? Know-nothing.
Suicidal economic policies by corrupt regimes, unending wars and social strife make droughts worse than they are, and throw in a little jihad, and you've got yourself Darfur. Just ignore the decade long civil war in Sudan while you're at it.
In fact, the father of climatology calls global warming nothing but hooey where charletans are out to make money over stoking fears in a crisis that doesn't exist.
The UN is set to benefit from any global warming deals through having its sticky fingers out on any carbon trading scheme or tax on emissions to be found. The UN might as well tax emissions on Mars (which is curiously experiencing global warming despite the fact that there are no human factories, cars, trucks, and coal-burning power plants there).
What Ban is doing is excusing violence around the world - and those perpetrating such violence, as being nothing more than mere after-effects of global warming. No personal responsibility of those involved. Nothing about what policies stoked droughts, starvation, and slaughters. Just global warming.
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