Posted on 01/18/2023 5:47:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the world is in a "sorry state" while speaking in Davos at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting on Wednesday.
Guterres said a number of issues, including climate change and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, are "piling up like cars in a chain reaction crash."
The UN chief said that increasing geopolitical division is undermining efforts to tackle global challenges such as soaring inflation and supply-chain disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He added that high debt levels are "pounding" developing countries.
Guterres said the world is "looking into the eye of a Category 5 hurricane."
"Our world is being plagued by a perfect storm on a number of fronts," he added.
Guterres called climate change an "existential challenge" for humanity. He added that the commitment to limit the Earth's temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius "is nearly going up in smoke," referring to the target set by the Paris Agreement in 2015.
He said that the "battle is being lost" and that every week brings "a new climate horror."
Guterres also criticized oil firms for promoting skepticism on climate change, referring to a recent study that found scientists at US oil and gas giant ExxonMobil made predictions with "shocking accuracy" several decades ago at a time when the company publicly doubted global warming.
"We learned last week that certain fossil fuel producers were fully aware in the 1970s that their core product was baking our planet," he said in his speech. "Some in Big Oil peddled the big lie."
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Where’s Goebbels?
Thanks, in part, to the UN.
And WHO made it that way arsehole?
Its like a teenager totalling his car while drunk driving and complaining about how now he can’t drive anywhere.
Exactly...Get rid of UN, WEF, Soros and the world would be a much better place...
Going to plan I didn’t see mentioned. Women and children, people of color, and refugees, hardest hit either?
And it’s the fault of the tree planted too close to the road.
What’s the plan for the rest of the world on how they are going to address this? Blaming the US for everything and then extorting money for these globalists bank accounts no longer plays.
America and its citizens would be far better off if the Us stopped funding the UN charade.
Is the world in a sorry state? Yes. Is it for the reasons he mentions - climate change and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? No.
The only problem with the world right now is there are too many Elites trying to create a World Dictatorship
You reap what you sew, facts.
Actually, things are better than they have ever been, prime example of that is the number of people living and the number of people living well. Just look at all the private aircraft that flew in to Davos for this gabfest (I would call it a circle-jerk but I didn’t want t be profane).
Weird how lowlife scumbags run all of these screwball “international” organizations. Old dinosaurs left over from the Cold War but nobody will shut them down because that will hurt the bozos’ feelings telling them that they are useless individuals in the new era.
The UN has led that demise for over 50 years, IMO.
You helped make it that way Guterres. What the hell are you whining about? Get somebody to change your Depends.
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