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The World
Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Permanent Mission of Madagascar and Ecuador partnered
with IOM to promote the implementation of Sustainable Development, Goal #14 of
U.N.’s Agenda 2030, “to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and
marine resources for sustainable development.” https://www.iom.int/news/iom-highlights-ocean-health-climate-change-migration-inaugural-un-ocean-conference
The idea of
all these U.N. sponsored conferences around the globe is that, if the United
Nations is in control and is the ultimate decision-maker, all the goals of the
Agenda 2030 can be easily implemented and the wealth redistributed to all third
world nations while protecting Mother Earth from hysterical Armageddon.
The
Permanent Mission of Fiji noted that “the ocean is part of everyday life in
Fiji – they are not only linked to livelihoods but are also an integral part of
our cultural heritage.”
The event
was moderated by Rosiland Jordan, U.N. Correspondent for Al Jazeera, and the
audience was composed of “member state representatives, civil society,
academics, scientists, journalists, and NGOs.”
Presentations
were made by John Tanzer (WWF), Jean Randriannatenaina (Regional Maritime
Information Fusion Center, Madagascar), Francoise Gail (Scientific Advisor,
Ocean and Climate Platform), and Mariam Chazalnoel (IOM) on “direct
consequences that climate change-related modification to the global ocean have
on island and coastal populations as the environment, economy and livelihoods
of many of these communities depend on oceans” and examples were given of changes
that influence the “migration patterns of affected communities as well as the
daily lives of communities receiving migrants.”
Ashraf El
Nour, Director to the IOM Office of the U.N., discussed displacement of
communities and the impact on human settlements located near or who depend on
the world’s oceans for their survival. According to the Internal Displacement
Monitoring Center, 24.2 million people were displaced in 2016 due to natural
disasters in the world, mainly floods and storms, clearly weather events, claiming
that “many of them were made worse by the climate change impacts in oceans’
coastal areas.”
We do know
that such claims of global warming/anthropogenic climate change effects are
false and were debunked by scientific data, many studies that contradict U.N.’s
IPCC computer modeling and fear-mongering.
This IOM
side-event also noted that “slow environmental degradation in coastal areas,
such as sea level rise or coastal erosion, are also expected to have long-term
impact on migration, as people move preemptively to find alternative livelihoods
or are forced to relocate inland.”
The topics
discussed were specifically chosen to harmonize with the Partnership Dialogues
of the Ocean Conference which must support Agenda 2030’s Goal 14:
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Managing,
protecting and conserving marine and coastal ecosystems (PD2)
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Ocean
acidification (PD 3)
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Making
fisheries sustainable (PD 4)
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Increasing economic benefits to small islands developing states
and least developed countries (PD 5) – more wealth redistribution schemes
There are
many stakeholders in this environmental fearmongering. Additionally, the Ocean
Conference was promoted as an opportunity to push migration and oceans in
preparation for the COP23 climate change/fossil fuels negotiations in Bonn,
Germany, in November 2017.
Instead of vilifying
the gas of plant life, carbon dioxide (CO2), the discussion should have focused
on the garbage pollution of the world’s oceans by the top eight countries in
Asia, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
Malaysia, and Bangladesh.
Millions of
tons of plastic trash float into the world’s oceans yearly. A 2015 study published
in the Science journal found that “Population size and the quality of waste
management systems largely determine which countries contribute the greatest
mass of uncaptured waste available to become plastic marine debris. Without
waste management infrastructure improvements, the cumulative quantity of
plastic waste available to enter the ocean from land is predicted to increase
by an order of magnitude by 2025. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768
China, for
example, with its heavily coastal population, dumps approximately 1.3 million
to 3.5 million metric tons of plastic into the oceans per year, mostly because
of its mismanaged waste. According to the study, if the top 20 countries would
cut their mismanaged waste by half, the mass of floating plastic would drop by
41 percent.
Sea mammals,
fish, and even smaller invertebrates can gulp pieces of plastic or become
entangled in fishing nets or plastic debris. Eventually some of the broken plastic
trash sinks to the bottom.
“Quantifying the
precise amount that ultimately washes out to sea is problematic, though, since
there is a dearth of reliable data.”
“Few of the top
contributing countries have adequate infrastructure for handling trash
disposal, the study authors noted. Even with a well-developed infrastructure to
handle solid waste, the U.S. contributed 40,000 to 110,000 metric tons per
year, and ranked 20th, they found.” http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-tons-of-plastic-trash-in-oceans-20150213-story.html
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