Humanity
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The diplomats have read the science and know the truth: without a rapid move to a zero-carbon global energy system by mid-century,
humanity
will be in grave peril.
The events of the last twelve months have surely driven home to most people that the most dangerous conflict facing
humanity
in the future is not the conflict between Man and the environment, but between Man and Man.
But not giving up on accountability, despite the passage of time, sends an important message about human rights, and the distinctive nature of these offenses as “crimes against humanity.”
And when we succeed, it will be a triumph for
humanity.
Yet, despite this deeply ingrained skepticism about human nature, we embrace
humanity'
s talent for progress and innovation, because we recognize man's ability to correct mistakes and errors.
Wiesel’s greatness was to have remained, under all circumstances, one of those humble Jews whom he considered the crown of
humanity.
Inaction would ignite fires throughout the Middle East, and would violate the international community’s now-accepted responsibility to protect, through timely and decisive collective action, populations at risk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other major crimes against
humanity
and war crimes.
A severed
humanity
could be the ultimate legacy of unfettered global capitalism.
The journalist Matt Taibbi’s memorable description in 2009 of Goldman Sachs – “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money” – still resonates, and for good reason.
In fact, despite the low probability of a direct military clash between the US and China, a new cold war would undoubtedly produce collateral damage so far-reaching and severe that the very future of
humanity
could be jeopardized.
If these two countries, which together are responsible for 38% of annual global CO2 emissions, are unable to find common ground on climate action, it is all but guaranteed that
humanity
will miss its last chance to prevent catastrophic global warming.
The one hope
humanity
would have would lie in technological innovation.
And the greatest existential threat
humanity
faces would be realized.
And only cooperation can enable
humanity
to face up to urgent planetary challenges, including the destruction of biodiversity, the poisoning of the oceans, and the threat posed by global warming to the world’s food supply, vast drylands, and heavily populated coastal regions.
Each of these constitutes a war crime, a crime against
humanity
and, in the case of the Anfal campaign and its mass slaughter, and perhaps also in the case of the Marsh Arabs, the gravest crime of all, genocide.
This confusion is why Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew are spurring us to think deeply about what is truly good for humanity, and how to attain it.
“Our civil life and civilization are defined and judged primarily by our respect for the dignity of
humanity
and integrity of nature.”
With one billion people - one sixth of all
humanity
-- stretched across a diverse sub-continent that ranges from the Himalayas to desert to fertile river valleys to great coastal cities, everything about India lies beyond generalization.
Should we really trust
humanity
to adjust and troubleshoot the problems posed by AI as they arise?
Watson tried to clarify his remarks in a subsequent interview in The Independent, saying:The overwhelming desire of society today is to assume that equal powers of reason are a universal heritage of
humanity.
It carries echoes of the declining years of the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev, when Marxist apologists insisted that there was nothing wrong with communism, except that
humanity
wasn’t yet mature enough for it.
The list of urgent challenges facing
humanity
is depressingly long.
It will produce a “to do” list that will demonstrate how to achieve the most that we can for humanity, which could lead, in turn, to more transparent decision-making.
We must endeavor to shorten the list of challenges facing
humanity.
Sanctions imposed by Canada, the European Union, the US, and Panama are also beginning to bite, and an investigation by the International Criminal Court into allegations of crimes against
humanity
should serve as a reminder to the regime that the world has not forgotten it.
The government can be forced to pass decrees, and Parliament can be pressured to adopt all the reform legislation known to
humanity.
Of course, it may be that
humanity
has always been short on critical thinking.
The Rome Statute defines murder or persecution that is knowingly “committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian population” as a crime against
humanity.
But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against
humanity
comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.
In doing so, it is likely to be armed with a full brief of evidence of war crimes and crimes against
humanity
now being compiled from eyewitness accounts by the Australian-based International Crimes Evidence Project.
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