If you say so. I don't have any particular interest in getting into a debate about climate change itself, if you aren't convinced by the science then you aren't going to be convinced by me.
My argument is with the claim, "environmentalism causes human rights abuses". I would argue that what causes humans rights abuses is unscrupulous governments trying to make a quick buck or political capital by screwing their people. That has nothing to do with environmentalism; it may be used as a pretext, but that is not the same as saying it causes the abuse.
If people are truly interested in human rights standards, they should be condemning abuses across the board, not specifically singling out those which might happen to have climate change as a pretext. Whether an abuse is rationalized as preventing terrorism or as preventing climate change makes no difference.
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