Subverting Efforts to Limit Human-Induced Climate Change is a Crime Against Humanity
Climate change caused by humans is increasingly linked to the mortality due to extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina, heat waves in Europe during 2003, and ongoing sub-Saharan droughts.
Crimes against humanity are acts so grave, on a scale so large, that their very execution diminishes the human race as a whole.
Countries and their leaders who wantonly subvert the United Nations’ efforts to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere commit a crime against humanity by posing a grave threat to individuals, our civilization and the environment.
This petition urges the UN Secretary-General to acknowledge that subversion of international efforts to limit anthropogenic climate change is a crime against humanity and therefore it is imperative to adjudicate this offence.
Sign this petition today and send it to those concerned about climate change.
For the attention of the UN Secretary-General,
Global warming is increasingly associated with rising sea levels, changes in precipitation, and more frequent and severe floods and droughts. Extreme weather events and other impacts of human-induced climate change, unless mitigated, will have catastrophic effects on human society, wildlife and the environment. It is essential that all nations and their leaders work together in order to limit and reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases.
"Crimes against humanity" are criminal offences above all others, which can be defined as acts so grave, on a scale so large, that their very execution diminishes the human race as a whole. The present and potential consequences of anthropogenic climate change are so detrimental to humanity and other life on Earth that nations or leaders who undermine international efforts to reduce its effects commit the gravest criminal act. The creation of an International Court of Environmental Crime could be a means to judge this wrong.
I, Dr Richard B. Richardson, a concerned Canadian scientist, have requested individuals around the world to sign an Internet-based petition to help protect humanity and other life forms from the abuses of human-caused climate change.
We urge you, as UN Secretary-General, to consider and acknowledge that countries and their leaders, who wantonly subvert the United Nations’ efforts to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere (at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system), commit a crime against humanity by posing the gravest threat to individuals, our civilization and the environment. Please take action to adjudicate this offence.
Sincerely,
