While not legally binding, the opinion is expected to be cited in climate-related legal cases worldwide.
So… Still just meaningless and toothless posturing then… Got it.
Consider this the next time you see an article about declining birth rates.
I see declining birth rates as a good thing. There’s too many humans and we abuse our planet. If we die out, so be it. I personally have refused to have children because I don’t want to subject a child to this. Maybe our population can decline to something more easily sustained in the future with clean energies and healthy foods. But right now with UPFs making us sick, climate change destroying our ecosphere, and general corporate greed and lobbying taking us for every penny we have, I do not think it fair to subject a new child to that.
Conservatives go hard on birth rate because they know they can’t provide the conditions to actually make people want to have kids
That, and racism
Or affordability, for that matter.
Yes, but the UN is a body made up of member nations and only has power insofar as the member nations have conviction and capacity to back it up. When the UN judgements don’t have teeth or statements don’t have follow through, it’s because the members don’t have conviction or those with conviction don’t have enough power. Nonetheless, having a forum where statements can be made that later reveal which members are disingenuous has value. The declarations give people and governments benchmarks to judge those who don’t hold to them, and while that doesn’t necessarily force them to change it does become part of the record they get evaluated on in all future relations. Everyone understanding each other better is valuable even if it doesn’t solve all the problems.
Wait, that was NOT already a thing?!?!?!!?!?
