Nature is determined to destroy humanity through flood, famine, fire, and pestilence, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared Wednesday, prophesizing the time has come for us to repent and mend our ways through a great climate and economic reset.
In an address at Columbia University in New York City, Guterres said the global climate has long been “reacting” to man-made changes, but emphasized there’s still time to prevent a total biodiversity collapse if we fall in behind the U.N. and its multiple agencies.
“Humanity is waging war on nature,” the Portugese socialist said. “This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back — and it is already doing so with growing force and fury.”
Guterres’ remarks begin a month of U.N.-led climate actions and came 10 days before its climate summit on Dec. 12, which is the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Accords.
He declared companies must adjust their business models for a green economy, and that means making carbon-free investments and follow the plans for recovery as laid out by the globalist organization.
“Biodiversity is collapsing. One million species are at risk of extinction. Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes. Deserts are spreading. Wetlands are being lost. Every year, we lose 10 million hectares of forests,” he said.
“Oceans are overfished — and choking with plastic waste. The carbon dioxide they absorb is acidifying the seas. Coral reefs are bleached and dying. Air and water pollution are killing nine million people annually — more than six times the current toll of the [coronavirus] pandemic.”
Guterres said instead of looking to a return to “normal,” the world should take advantage of the “pandemic reset” to create “a more equitable and just world.”
Here’s what Guterres demanded the nations of the world do:
- Put a price on carbon
- Phase out fossil fuel finance and end fossil fuel subsidies
- Shift the tax burden from income to carbon, and from tax payers to polluters
- Integrate the goal of carbon neutrality (a similar concept to net zero) into all economic and fiscal policies and decisions
- Help those around the world who are already facing the dire impacts of climate change
If we don’t, he said, we’re living on borrowed time, repeating a warning he made earlier this year in demanding changes to the way the world is run.
“This is a moment of truth for people and planet alike. COVID and climate have brought us to a threshold. We cannot go back to the old normal of inequality, injustice and heedless dominion over the Earth. Instead we must step towards a safer, more sustainable and equitable path.”
The way the Democrats are we won’t have to worry about that we need to worry about a Civil war
Like A True Democrat Want’s To Bull Shit You Out Of Your Money.
This is a parade of exaggerations and outright lies. The coral’s just fine, the people dying from (mostly) water pollution need to make more money to clean it up, not adopt some socialist nonsense. There are market-based, freedom-enhancing solutions to all these problems, to the extent they’re problems. Somehow these international bureaucrats, gotten used to first class travel and 5 star meals, want us to lurch to the Left – ALWAYS to the Left – as the “solution” to the problem. So here’s a question for all these really smart people – how do you know when you’ve gone too far? In other words, we don’t want to become Venezuela, do we? So if we collectivize everything, eliminate most “choice” in life (except for abortion, where it’s apparently sacred), if we turn our country into a socialist paradise with an elite at the top bossing everybody around, how do we know when we’re at the optimum point of government? How do we avoid becoming Venezuela? PS I do not believe there is an honest answer to this, because I believe what these people have in mind is Venezuela for us and for themselves – with them on the inner clique that runs the joint, a la Commandante Maduro. If they thought they had to live in the same world they’re dictating for us, they’d drop the pretense. All IMHO, of course.
time to EVICT the un they are useless beggars
A useless individual representing the most useless organization on the planet. He can spew his communist diatribe in his own country.
Symptoms he describes are real…his solutions
Are not. Overpopulation is the problem. Tens of millions in India have no access to basic toilets, millions more in much of the world
No access to clean water. Overpopulation forces people to live in ever growing areas not capable of sustaining life. The billion+ in China are being fed by their goverment’s aggressive and highly organized take-over of the world’s fisheries. China and India are the two leading countries that get a pass on the Paris
Accords because they are “developing.” The Paris Accords are a waste of time.
Mr. Guterres,
With all due respect.
Leave the USA out of your Socialist program.
1. We the USA are already going negative on our carbon foot print. We have moved away from coal and towards clean energy.
2. We the USA are planting trees. Millions of the in our country.
3. We the USA are reconciling our social structure to be more diverse and inclusive.
SO.
You go to the rest of the world and tell them to follow our lead.
China and India are among the largest polluting countries on the planet.
Tell Brazil and Indonesia to quit cutting down their trees.
We the American people will not subsidize anyone !!!
We will work with countries to Assist them in making their environment cleaner.
BUT We the American people are not going to pay for their short sightedness and ill thought out policies.
Tell the Socialist and Communist countries to start investing in their own infrastructures.
Tell these countries to Open up their economies on a fair trade basis to allow our technology to be spread
through out the world.
Then maybe, We Americans will listen to what you have to say.
Randall Reagan
American.
Tell this jerk to stuff it!
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Agreed JC. ????????
Spoken like a true “fool” . “Inequality”??? Carbon Neutrality? Get off fossil fuel?? I guess he doesn’t ming “sailing” from one port to another via “wind driven” ships . He FAILS to mention , that in order to make “solar panels” , there is a HUGE carbon footprint , then HOW many acres are needed to run a city? Run a business? Batteries? How much of a carbon foot print to make a battery that will charge a car for over three hundred miles, re-charge times , and “re-charging stations” that need to be built . The socialists have all the answers , and no means to get it done.
“Socialism , good on paper, not so good in real life.” Thomas Sowell
Climate Change or whatever they call it today is fake. The world has changed thru hot and cold cycles since the beginning of time. Nothing will be changed unless ALL countries make changes. For the US to spend billions of dollars to make our air cleaner does nothing to help the overall picture as our clean air moves away from us and we get some one else’s dirty air. When all the air is clean we will see a difference but it still won’t stop the hot and cold cycles that are controlled by nature itself.
There are countries not the USA that are dumping in the oceans and are causing a lot of damage to the whole world
Sounds like the green new deal to me!
Here’s one persons opinion.
You people would like nothing better than put the most powerful Nation in the world back into the stone age. You are all idiots. Take you B.S to China, India, Saudi Arabia and convince them to shut down there factories, do you think they will agree. You want to redefine the US economy , the very thing that made this country. The US is not going to resolve this so called climate change issue single handed, your going to have to get the entire world to reduce there carbon output. But it seem to Me your not preaching your BS anywhere but the US. and Countries that really don’t have any manufacturing to disrupt. So in closing, convince the countries to fall in line with what your preaching, then come back to the US and let us know how successful you were. Don’t try to destroy this Country so our other countries can prosper. We were in the WAC for years and who benefited from the Billons of dollars the US dumped into that do nothing origination. WE have spent Billions to protect the World form Climate change, and still apparently the problem is getting worse. So take your Ass to Saudi, China, India & Russia see if they will listen to your Al Gore BS about turn down your heat can AC and stop driving your car, so I can fly around in my private Jet and use more energy than a small city to take care of my homes. In other words BULL SHIT
The UN is an ANI AMERICAN organization DESIGNED TO TAK EDOWN THE UNITED STATES !! FACTS STING !
The UN is an ANI AMERICAN organization DESIGNED TO TAKE EDOWN THE UNITED STATES !! FACTS STING !
Humanity is facing a very simple, yet also a very complex and difficult choice. Either we plan and live for the persistence and advanced future of human culture, or we exploit the present fruits human technology and science to provide the greatest standard of living for a relatively small percentage of humanity for as long as possible during the uncontrolled expansion of the human species while the only planet we have decays into a morass of chemical pollution and environmental decay. Humanity may be incapable of making the first choice and incapable of recognizing the impending disaster of the second choice. A situation, which if true, leaves humanity waging wars great and small sometime in the next few hundred years, which has been, and is the story of human existence.
Not one mention of (exponential) over population which is driving consumption and the destruction of nature.
Nature is determined to destroy humanity through flood, famine, fire, and pestilence, ??? God tells us in Genesis that He will never destroy the world by floods. I don’t know what nature says. Who does?. God does say that the world will be destroyed by fire, but it won’t be man induced forest fires in California. It will be a one time universal, world wide fire that will destroy all people who do not know Jesus as their personal savior and protector! It appears to me to be just a prelude to hell!!!
The U.N. Is a Group of Hate America Criminals that wants U.S. to Pay for All of Their “Pie in the Sky” Schemes!
It is about time to Quit the UN and get them the Hell Out of Our Country and they can take the God Damn Democrats with them!
Merry Christmas!
Amen.
According to the first predictions of the environmentalists we should have already gone down the tubes. They keep giving us more time because they haven’t gotten all our money yet. I would be more concerned about their predictions if there were less people like Gore who builds mansions flies huge planes and becomes richer every day.
Right on VinnieA, you said the truth so perfectly.
Funny because it’s not the U.S. that’s dumping caustic chemicals in the ocean at the rate of countries like say, India? China? Venezuela? The US ranks number 87 on a list of the 100 most polluted countries in the world, hmmmmm………… Not saying we’re the cleanest, but we certainly have some of the strictest controls and enforcement in the world. Of course if these planet monkeys think the world would be a better place without electricity, running water, mega farms to produce food for the global market and much more….GTFO of the US and go to Venezuela, they have your utopia there. We are the USA, if you don’t LOVE it and our founding principals of the constitution and other founding documents (which by the way the democrats want to throw away) then LEAVE it! I’ll help pay for the plane ticket on your fossil fueled aircraft with your fossil fueled ground transportation and your inflight meals grown on a mega farm, and don’t forget the landing field lights lit by fossil fueled electricity. What is your idea of “clean” electricity? Wind? Nope, already proven to NOT be a readily available source for global electricity. Nuclear? Nope, you would then just cry about radiation, fear of accidents, complain of chemical waste, etc. Solar? Nope, can’t build enough panels to realistically power even a small city (then there is the hazardous waste from the panels when they are no longer viable). So unless you have some kind of “zero point energy” source that you aren’t sharing…STFU. Liberal drivel………….. I could go on for weeks about the liberal socialist pipe dream, but then I come back to reality and, like several million other Americans, I understand what it means to be an American, live the American life, appreciate the country I live in rather than sh*t on it and tell others how everything I do/love is baseless and wrong…………Trump understands what it means to be American, Biden, Harris, and those who support them and their communist (yes, it is communism) ideas just want to sell it to China and balloon their investment accounts, maintain their power, and control the population like any good little dictator would. smh…………..in fact, comrade general Gutierrez should check his own back yard before preaching to the world.
Clean up your own messes and we’ll do ours!!!! I’m tired of my taxes going to other countries that make piss poor choices and try to dip into our pockets!!!!!
Will he B addressing the problem in Beijing next?
The UN is looking for the US to foot the bill for their schemes.
Hell no!!!
There is it. He and the UN have been behind this pandemic from the very beginning. I’ve read all about this going all the way back to the Club of Rome, then Bilderberg Group. He must be getting upset because they have been planning for three decades to do this “virus” and it’s not working so good for their plan.
Any human that trust a word coming from the UN is a fool, China needs to clean up their labs that set the stage for the UN to start this reset conversation to begin with. It’s a little bit strange how the virus got lose and now we need to reset. WE NEED TO GET THE UN OUT OF OUR COUNTRY AND QUIT PLAYING WITH THEM. President Trump didn’t and would never consider such garbage coming from this guys mouth.
We sent plastic by the ship load and pay China to recycle and they throw it into the ocean instead. Yet the U.S. is the problem.
My Family members..Joan Marie Wallace Mann& Mary Adelaide Walker..have been dipping in my pockets..Every since I’ve came into this ? .Those Money Hungry can’t get enough…
the planet doesn’t need 5 billion +2 and 3 pie hole intestines occupying its surface consuming everything in site while multiplying like cats. the problem rises due to too many occupants with no limits in site. reduce the numbers and life will be again worth living.