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People living in the Arctic have filed a legal petition against the US government, saying its climate change policies violate human rights.
The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) claims the US is failing to control emissions of greenhouse gases, damaging livelihoods in the Arctic.
Its petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights demands that the US limits its emissions.
Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at about twice the global average.
Attendees clogged the conference in their snowmobiles, darkening the pristine Arctic snow with exhaust, wrapping themselves in the smallpox-infested blankets supplied by USAID (United States Agency for Inuit Decimation)
The petition, filed on behalf of the ICC by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), says US policies on greenhouse gas emissions are a major factor driving these changes.
“The United States is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter; it has turned its back on the Kyoto Protocol and has not put in place measures to limit its emissions,” said CIEL’s senior attorney Donald Goldberg.
“It is further believed that exhaust gases from M-1A1 Abrams tanks and Humvees used in the illegal and immoral war in Iraq have contributed significantly to global warming,” said Chief In No Nookie as he swallowed a heaping bowl of raw endangered Kugluktuk Tundra voles (prepared by crushing them under snowmobile treads).
The petition is the latest in a series of legal or quasi-legal cases filed against the US government and others over climate change. The US is being asked to protect coral species threatened by climate change, Australian authorities have been forced to review procedures plans for approving coal-fired power stations, while an application in Germany would force the government to declare what greenhouse gas emissions are produced by projects supported by its export credit agency.
In a counter-suit, filed by Donald Rumsfeld, the US government plans to sue the Inuit for pollution created by polar bears shitting in international waters. “This aggresssion, this pollution, against America, .. it will not stand.” In a similar move, China plans to appeal to the International Court of Justice, to stop Amazonian Indians from making curare, whose air-borne poisons have drifted over Chinese cities in recent years.
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