The Green Police?

Stretch sends in a story that forces me to dust off my wookie suit:

UN security council to consider climate change peacekeeping

A special meeting of the United Nations security council is due to consider whether to expand its mission to keep the peace in an era of climate change.

Small island states, which could disappear beneath rising seas, are pushing the security council to intervene to combat the threat to their existence.

There has been talk, meanwhile, of a new environmental peacekeeping force – green helmets – which could step into conflicts caused by shrinking resources.

Very timely article, considering Tam's recent missive about gun ownership and such. This is exactly the kind of story that feeds into the "blue helmets on American soil" nonsense that populate some gun forums and chat rooms (and blog). Heck, if you'd talked to the Jay G. of 1999, he was pretty damn well convinced that Klinton (yes, I spelled it with a K; my wookie suit has always been long and luxurious, thank you) was going to suspend the 2000 elections and keep the peace with Belgian troops.

But here's the thing: The "troops" aren't going to have guns and tanks, they're going to have laptops and rulebooks. They're going to legislate everything away, bit by bit, rather than one dramatic showdown - they know they'll lose the dramatic showdown. What's especially notable in the article is that there's no debate whatsoever about the reality of "climate change", that nebulous, squishy nothing that used to be "global warming" which used to be "hole in the ozone layer" which used to be "acid rain", which used to be "the new ice age", which... "Climate change" is real, they claim, and therefore it is.

And if they do start painting those helmets green, well, a whole generation of keyboard commandos is going to have to change their targets...

That is all.