Comment on No Enforcement ⚖️
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Considering the 5 countries that were supposed to coordinate in enforcing the rules immediately went for each others throats and that two of them have a competition on who can accumulate more violations of international law, the UN is actually going an amazing job at preventing the world from going up in flames.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I mean, the world is going up in flames. That is a pretty big thing that is happening. Those 5 countries and their mutual defensive pact allies are responsible for a majority of global emissions that are heating the planet to the point of uninhabitability.
Billions of people will die violently, for a large part because if the UN-mediated stability of capitalist global trade and its unlimited industrial capacity to make the planet uninhabitable.
The UN with its veto system has effectively prevented non-permanent UNSC member nations from coming to binding agreements and pushing them on the privileged few. 6 billion people from across the world matter less than 70 million British people, even though India and Pakistan both have nukes too.
M137@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
It’s not going up in flames specifically because of that and not as quickly as it would without the UN. I’m not saying you’re incorrect and that the UN is without fault, just that your reply isn’t really about the point that was made.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I doubt a nuclear war would have killed as many people as the mass extinction event will. Hiroshima was rebuilt and repopulated in decades, while the entire tropics will become uninhabitable for millions of years.
Plus there’s a good chance we’ll have climate crisis and nuclear war.
If you hold the UN responsible for the stability of the past 80 years, you must therefore hold them responsible for its consequence of global industrialization and therefore you must blame them its consequence, the mass extinction of most life on earth, including a majority of humanity.