Volker Turk Says, "Our environment is burning. It's melting. It's flooding. It's depleting. It's drying. It's dying,"

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, an Austrian attorney who has been in various supervisory roles at the UN since 1991, Volker Turk has said that the world faces a dystopian future unless climate change is arrested immediately.

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Mr. Turk frames climate change as a human rights issue, which apparently gives his office and the UN the right to make policy decisions that effect humans all over the earth. The fact that there is no empirical evidence of AGW matters not to an individual whose education and training is in the dimension of law, not climate science. His statistics on the effects of climate change, for instance that 828 million souls faced hunger in 2021 and that "projections" will put another 80 million at risk of hunger by mid-century, can't possibly be verified. Being at risk isn't the same thing as actually starving or even being ill-fed.In fact, now, as in the past, large scale famines have been the product of government actions, not climate vagaries.

While parts of Ukraine were under drought conditions in 1921-1923, it's evident that Soviet policies resulted in the starvation of millions in what was the most fertile area of eastern Europe. Presently there's a famine situation in Ethiopia, a product of the conflict between the Ethiopian government and Tigray rebels. 

If Mr. Turk is truly interested in human rights, however they might be determined, he could use his position to address political and government actions that immediately affect food supplies rather than demanding expensive and dubious efforts to arrest perhaps imaginary climate change.