The claims of ideological orthodoxies of all kinds championed by the United Nations, not just climate, are now being challenged by people on social media, and even in mainstream news media. And in response, the global ‘censorship industrial complex‘, as it has been dubbed, is mobilising to shut down those conversations.
The problem is that, the more they shift towards draconian interventions, the more they unwittingly signal their inability to understand the debates they wish to proscribe.
At the end of June, the UN Human Rights Council published a report
by the agency’s “Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of
human rights in the context of climate change”, Elisa Morgera. After
moving through the long preamble and its obligatory recitation of the
climate litany – unimpeachable science… worst year ever… urgent
necessity of climate action… blah blah blah – Morgera eventually arrives
at her paradox. In order to protect human rights, human rights must be
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