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Old Apr 14, 2007, 12:48 am   #1 (permalink) (top)
Technosoul
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Human Rights and Global Warming

As winter storms crash across the United States of America we still find that Global Warming is a hot topic in poltical circles, and even relative to international politics and treaty agreements.

A number of threads have been orginated on this topic but I feel this one presents another angle to the problem that was not a part of the O.P. (opening post) of any other topic about this problem. The other threads were about the rights of businesses or about a bunch of scientific data and speculative doomsday theories.

This is about real human rights and about Nature's Laws that are in violation and what can be done poltically by governments to start to control the cause and effects generating Global Warming,

The voice began in the 1980s from the Eskomo tribes that live near the polar poles of Canada. The reason is that the warming of the ice is directly effecting their way of life because they depend on ice, snow and rather cold weather for their hunting culture and because they use ice for transportation,

For as long as we have any recorded history of the northern native tribes they have survived cheifly has a hunting tribe, using dog sleds for transportation, and they also do some fishing. They depend on nature for food and do not have shopping centers or markets to buy food from. That way of life has been handed down from generation to generation for countless years but they are very worried now because their grandchildren might not be able to carry on with the traditional teachings that has substained them for so long as a culture.

They want to put a human face on this topic because we get sidetracked with other reasons to debate this problem. Their natural right to exsist as a culture is directly being effected and their future under grave threat.

They are not left wing tree huggers because they got not trees up there to speak of. They are just human beings, and they are parents and grandparents just like most of us are.

They first became alarmed about environmental issues back in the 1980s when it was discovered that their mothers had topic breast milk, and the reason is because they eat a lot of fat from mammals of the sea which migrated down the cost to areas were bug stray washed into the oceans form the farming industry. (and othe sources). Their infants were being poisoned by something happening many miles away in another country.

They went forth and contacted a number of nations and got some of the chemicals banned, and even enforced. The USA agreed to the international treaty but never ratified it nor enforced it. Which is odd because a major part of their support and funding for change came from private groups here in the USA, from we the people.

And now more new toxic chemicals are showing up in the north pole area that were not on the original list of hazardous chemicals. Research has found a high level of fire retardant chemicals in Polor Bears (who also eat Seals and other mammals) and the fat of those animals stores the toxics consumed.
And fish.

And so these man made changes in the weather caused by industrial nations are not just about weather changes, but about the health of those who hunt for food directly from nature, as do the Eskomos. (without the aid of "Food Inspectors" like we have with our supermarkets.. more or less have that is).

Their right to their environment, their home, their health, and their food supply is all endangered the the toxics we and other industral nations produce to do our businesses. And when it comes down to it the only ones who can acturally enforce a change is our political government, as well as the voluntary efforts of businessmen (which is rare or is put-off as not an urgent matter).

At this moment some of our Untied States is experiencing the side effects of weather changes with frozen farming crops, nasty winds, and snow, hail, and rain storms. But that is not the topic, this is topic is about the rights of real humans who must suffer drastic changes in their traditional life styles and resources. Which will be directly effected by how our government responds to the situtation at hand. So far no one from our government has responded to the "voices" from the northern natives.

I found the information above on a tv show out of Santa Barbara California but can find on web links to the story aired this evening on this topic. Santa Barbara tv. org. is the link they provided.

Is the USA responsible via our government for the rights being violated by our businesses of peoples who live in Canada or near the north pole?
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