UN Security Council To Consider Climate Change Peacekeeping -- The GuardianSpecial meeting to discuss 'green helmets' force to intervene in conflicts caused by rising seas levels and shrinking resources
A special meeting of the United Nations security council is due to consider whether to expand its mission to keep the peace in an era of climate change.
Small island states, which could disappear beneath rising seas, are pushing the security council to intervene to combat the threat to their existence.
There has been talk, meanwhile, of a new environmental peacekeeping force – green helmets – which could step into conflicts caused by shrinking resources.
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, is expected to address the meeting on Wednesday.
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My Comment: In a world filled with a lot of problems, this should not be on the UN's priority list.
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I disagree on one hand agree on the other.
On the one hand, the United Nations has proven itself to be as useful as wearing a bucket on your head and thus Environmental Peacekeeping would be a perfectly useless addition to its increasingly worthless arsenal.
On the other hand, if the United Nations actually worked the way it was supposed to this would be an unjustifiable waste of its resources that take away from far more important considerations.
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