Blinken Demands UN Security Council Accept Climate Change as Global Security Threat Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—Secretary of State Tony Blinken used his address yesterday at the UN Security Council’s special meeting on climate and security to try to ram down the throats of member nations the argument that the “climate crisis” is the pressing global security issue to be addressed by that body, as it is supposedly the cause of every major problem on the planet. Not all present agreed, as we report further. The day before his speech, on Sept. 22, a “senior State Department official” gave a media briefing explaining why climate change is an appropriate issue to be discussed at the UNSC, since it stokes tensions within and between nations, causes conflict and migrations and is responsible for extreme weather events which destabilize nations. This official could barely contain her enthusiasm when one reporter referred to Haitian migrants at the U.S. border as “environmental refugees.” While getting the UNSC to pass a resolution on climate as a security threat isn’t likely, she admitted, the U.S. wanted to introduce the topic to put it on the UNSC’s “radar screen.” In his remarks yesterday, Blinken emphasized that the climate crisis is the core element of U.S. foreign policy. Extreme weather events underscore the “urgent need” to dramatically reduce emissions, and help others “to do their part,” he said. Among the ways in which he proposed the UNSC could play a vital role, a major one would be to stop the debate over whether the climate crisis should be discussed at the UNSC and ask instead how the UNSC can “leverage its unique powers to tackle the negative impacts of climate on peace and security.” Anywhere in the world where there are threats to peace and security, “you’ll find that climate change is making things less peaceful, less secure.” That’s true in Syria, Mali, Yemen, South Sudan, Ethiopia, etc. he said. Blinken’s punchline was that the only way to deal with this crisis was for the world to accept Malthusian depopulation policies. Rather than view the situation just through the lens of threats posed by the climate crisis, he warned, what’s needed is “immediate, bold actions to build resilience, to adapt to the unavoidable impacts, and move swiftly to a net-zero world.” This, he gravely intoned, is the shared charge of COP26. If the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5° C is to be reached, “every nation will need to bring their highest possible ambitions to the table.” This current situation, Blinken concluded, offers an “unprecedented opportunity” for all nations to embrace fully the zero-growth, zero-people green boondoggle, which he cloaked in the promise to provide greater access to “affordable, clean energy; to build green infrastructure; to create good-paying jobs,” spur long-term economic growth and “improve the lives of people around the world.” (https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-un-security-council-meeting-on-climate-and-security/) [crr] Russia and India Object to ‘Climate Security’ Debate at the UN Security Council Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s absurd remarks yesterday pressing the UN Security Council to take up the issue of climate change as the greatest threat to the planet did not go unopposed. “To view conflict in poorer parts of the world through the prism of climate change would only serve to present a lopsided narrative when the reasons for the conflict are to be found elsewhere,” stated an Indian official, according to the Economic Times. Secretary (West) Reenat Sandhu of the Ministry of External Affairs says that viewing conflicts in poorer nations through the prism of climate change is not useful. Climate change is being discussed in a focused way at the UN through a variety of different agencies and mechanisms have been put in place for further action, she stressed. So, “picking one aspect of climate change, namely climate security, and dealing with it in this forum, which is not geared to tackle a multi-faceted problem of this nature, would not be desirable.” In any discussion of the issue of climate and security, she underscored, care must be taken “not to create a parallel climate track. We have to continue on the path of inclusive decision-making.” (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/bringing-climate-security-into-unsc-discourse-has-potential-to-disrupt-nature-of-overall-discussions-india/articleshow/86459647.cms) First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian UN Mission Dmitry Polyanskiy said the U.S. was trying to “formalize the issue of climate change on the agenda of the Security Council,” and that “we have a question here. How efficient is this in terms of solving [the UNSC’s] existing tasks?” TASS reported him as saying: “We are convinced that persistent attempts to advance climate change to the UN Security Council agenda at all costs as a threat to international peace and security add a totally unnecessary political component to this already complicated and sensitive discussion. This approach may result in lopsided and inefficient proposals from the point of view of the strengthening of stability in the world,” he warned. His complete remarks are posted on the UN Mission website. (https://russiaun.ru/en/news/sc_230921) [crr]

The answers to many of the economic and financial questions received for today can be found in the newly-released TLO pamphlet, "The Coming U.S. Economic Miracle -- On the New Silk Road." Questions addressed today include: 1, What is Fed Chair Jerome Powell talking about when he assures us that inflation is "transitory"?; 2. What about China's actions related to Evergrande?; 3. Is the AUKUS agreement directed against China?; 4. What is the significance of the indictment of Hillary's attorney Sussman?

A brief survey of the world today can but make any person of conscience weep—and commit to fight: With scenes of Black men being rounded up on the southern U.S. border, herded into vehicles with hands and legs shackled, and transported abroad without being told their destination, the US Special Envoy to Haiti Daniel Foote today resigned, saying in a statement: “I will not be associated with the United States’ inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs in control of daily life. [Haiti] simply cannot support the forced infusion of thousands of returned migrants lacking food, shelter, and money without additional, avoidable human tragedy. Surging migrants to our borders will only grow as we add to Haiti’s unacceptable misery.”In Lebanon, the national power company announced that it was down to its last remaining stocks, that it can generate less than 500 megawatts of electricity with oil secured from Iraq. The notice read: “The network already experienced total blackouts across the country seven times and if this continues there is a high risk of reaching total and complete blackout by end September.” In Syria, Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told the press: “The sanctions imposed by the United States are suffocating the Syrian people. The level of poverty has increased, the lack of medicine has increased. Remarkably, we don’t find even the main medicine to treat people who are suffering from cancer, from other diseases, even the coronavirus.” In Yemen, David Beasley, the head of the World Food Program, warned that “16 million Yemenis are marching toward starvation,” and rations will be further cut in October if emergency aid is not forthcoming. “We need the war to end, number one,” he said, “and if donors are getting fatigued, well, end the war! They don’t have any money left over to buy anything. It is a heartbreak, it really is.” In Afghanistan, as the US Treasury refuses to release $8 billion belonging to the Afghani people, for claimed “humanitarian” reasons, Beasley has warned that 28 million people out of the 37 million population are facing starvation in a nation devastated by 20 years of NATO occupation and war. Across Europe, due to the Green fanatics shutting down nuclear, coal and gas powered facilities, gas and electricity prices have increased catastrophically, such that nearly three million working families cannot even afford to heat their homes. The madness is not hidden. Everywhere outside of Asia, both in poor nations and in industrialized ones, it is impossible not to recognize that we are increasingly living in a dark age, where children are told they can take mind-destroying drugs and change their sex if it suits their manipulated fancy, but are denied any sense of a future as a productive and happy human being. Economies are being crushed by the fake science peddled as anthropogenic climate change and by an emerging hyperinflationary explosion in the western financial system, as well as the failure to contain the coronavirus. Despite the wisdom of ending the “endless war” in Afghanistan, new wars against superpowers Russia and China are openly being planned by the Anglo-American military-industrial complex and their Wall Street and City of London financiers. Classical beauty has been discarded in favor of glorified ugliness. And yet, the Schiller Institute and the LaRouche Organization see this as a moment of optimism, in which, as the English poet Percy Shelly said in his A Defence of Poetry, the extreme danger forces people to drop their indifference to the rest of humanity, and become more capable of comprehending “intense and impassioned conceptions respecting man and nature.” This is a revolutionary moment. The LaRouche Organization today released a 56-page pamphlet for mass distribution aimed at arming the population, intellectually, for this revolution. Titled “The Coming U.S. Economic Miracle on the New Silk Road,” copies can be obtained by contacting any member of the organization. Whether the human race will descend into Armageddon or create a new global Renaissance depends on how you choose to act at this pregnant moment of history.

Richard Freeman, of the Economics Desk of EIR, was the guest on this week's TLO Fireside Chat. Mr. Freeman heads up a team completing a major Schiller Institute report and policy proposal to solve the huge crisis ongoing in Haiti, which report is scheduled for publication in the EIR Online of Sept. 30. After the Haitian earthquake in 2010, causing the deaths of more than 300,000 people, Lyndon LaRouche proposed a major reconstruction program for the nation: it was not acted on during the Obama Administration. Now, with the 2021 earthquake, and the assassination of the President, the much-worsened situation has generated a huge humanitarian crisis within Haiti, and internationally—with the refugee crisis on the US-Mexican border and much more. EIR will outline the urgent steps to address this with an immediate mobilization for water, health, power, transport infrastructure, and the US role in this. In discussing this situation, Freeman cited Lyndon LaRouche from 2004, “In my view, you always go to the worst case, to set a policy. In your own country, you look at the poorest layer of our population, and say, ‘Will this policy work for their children and grandchildren?’ And if it works for the poorest ones, justly, then it’ll probably work for everyone—as Franklin Roosevelt defined that: Always go to the “forgotten man.” Take the person who’s the greatest victim, of injustice or neglect, and start there; and prove that you are really for the general welfare of people, by showing you’re willing to face that problem. Look it in the eye and talk about curing it.”