This is for a resolution I feel is truly horrible and deserves to be tossed into an erupting volcano xD Jk but I still definitely think it should be repealed and replaced with something that isn’t based upon the premise that anything a volcano does is always harmful and actually covers the full scope of its mandates.
Repeal: Volcanic Activity Convention
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
Category: Repeal | Resolution: GA#565 | Proposed by: The Forest of Aeneas
General Assembly Resolution #565 “Volcanic Activity Convention” (Category: Regulation; Area of Effect: Safety) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The target resolution limits its scope merely to preparing for dangerous volcanic activity, setting a very dangerous precedent that one resolution is needed per each natural disaster that may occur within any member state, rather than simply passing an omnibus resolution that deals with all natural disasters.
The resolution defines ‘volcanic activity’ as ‘the activity of a volcano’, and repeatedly claims both in its preamble and mandates that ‘volcanic activity’ is always dangerous. This disregards the fact that not all activity of volcanoes is necessarily dangerous, requiring member states to protect themselves (by ‘actively prevent[ing] ’ and ‘revers[ing]’ damage caused thereby) from ‘volcanic activity’ that may not even pose any significant danger due to its absurd broadness; for example, passive degassing, which directly occurs as the non-explosive emission of volcanic gases into the atmosphere and is regularly done by active volcanoes even in the absence of eruptions occuring or about to occur, and the creation of hydrothermal vents due to past volcanic eruptions, which are not only harmless, but the natural habitat of many organisms. As the entire resolution is based upon the highly flawed and objectionable assumption that absolutely any activity of a volcano is dangerous or bad, it certainly embarasses this most excellent assembly by its mere existence.
Clause 2.a overuses vague and exploitable language, turning a blind eye through its incompetence to member states chickening out of compliance with many of its provisions’ spirit by, for example, stating that;
minimising damage to the environment caused by volcanic activity is ‘unreasonable’ in 2.a(i);
resources mandated in 2.a(ii) are ‘irrelevant’ or ‘unnecessary’; and
reversal of any damage caused by volcanic activity is outside of ‘reason’ in 2.a(iii).
The target resolution contradicts its own statement that ‘volcanic activity is mostly unpreventable’ by requiring member states to ‘actively prevent further damage by volcanic activity’. Volcanic eruptions are natural disasters and occur at the caprice of nature, not sapients; therefore, no reasonable effort can be made by most member states to fully ‘actively prevent’ volcanic activity or damage caused thereby.
The resolution requires member states to ‘work with nations likely to be significantly affected to prepare for any volcanic activity’. This, once again, shows its astonishing incompetence through the lack of an adequate ceiling on what nations member states are required to collaborate with, meaning that member states are required to collaborate with absolutely every nation that is ‘likely to be significantly affected’, regardless of whether that aid or collaboration is requested or that nation actually requires such aid. This is in spite of the self-evident fact that this swiftly depletes the resources of member states. Moreover, even if we were to ignore the impracticality in such collaboration, the overloading of member states with ‘aid’ would not help evacuation procedures, as the burden of processing and managing redundant ‘aid’ would unambiguously outweigh any utility it actually provides.
The target requires member states to ‘take whichever evacuation measures ensure that anyone at immediate risk of volcanic activity knows how to evacuate, when to evacuate, and where to evacuate to’, which can more than reasonably be interpreted as requiring member states to ensure that every single person within their jurisdiction and ‘at immediate risk of volcanic activity’ knows that information. This cries for the moon.
Despite requiring evacuation measures to be done in a certain manner, it fails to actually require that they occur. Instead, by onerously restricting how evacuation measures are done, such as requiring evacuation shelters to be ‘mobile and flexible enough to house and meet the demands of the evacuated’, no matter how unreasonable, contradictory, or impractical these demands are, and 2.b burdening member states seeking to evacuate areas with excessive and redundant ‘aid’, it actually subtly discourages member states from evacuating areas where there is serious threat to sapient life. This goes against its own aim of promoting safety.
Therefore, we, member states united and now assembled from across this natural realm, shocked by its utter incompetence and problematic and unknowledgable nature, and convinced that we can muster a much better resolution to prepare for natural disasters, as we have given due consideration, and with our authority and assent, hereby declare GA#565: Volcanic Activity Convention repealed.
