Cameron said threatened nations need answers to the vexing legal questions of land, water and migration for their own sakes as well as to send a signal to developed countries stalling on climate change action that "if you don't come up with a response, we're going to start looking at legal options." But more broadly, he said, the international community needs to start viewing climate change through the lens of human rights.
"What we're trying to do in this debate is take an old issue, which is climate change, and make people look at it in a completely different way ... as a human and social issue instead of an ecological issue," he said. "Climate change is not about polar bears; it's about people, and human rights helps us to understand it as a human issue."
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500
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Add CommentWell, considering that no island is disappearing, and no country is going to wind up underwater, and that sea levels really aren't rising like everyone thought they were, what point does this article serve exactly? Oh, right. Environmentalist propaganda.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this"Environmentalist" is just a label tagged onto unrelated people who are justifiably concerned about the environment. They have no propaganda. However, right-wing groups are paying people, perhaps frgough, to write disparaging comments on the theory that a lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI vote for naming it Atlantis.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWelcome to "Waterwold".
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisCongratulations, Lisa, on an excellent report on an alarming reality.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHey is there any sort of solid evidence that the oceans are actually rising? I fully expect to be inundated with links to articles about the subject that still don't prove they are, that's how you guys operate, bury a "denier" in garbage that barely address the topic and act like you've proven your case beyond any reasonable doubt. It works of course because nobody but me will actually check them. Just hoping that for once somebody will admit that there isn't any yet. That would be refreshingly honest.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat did China do at Copenhagen? Let's not bow to highly financed dogmatic insularity: Just take a look outside the box to participate:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPlaces to Remember before they disappear.
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