The U.N. Secretary-General’s Searing Message for the Fossil-Fuel Industry

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On Monday, the U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a frank talk on global warming and an excoriating message to the fossil-fuel industry. His courageous directness is hugely important, billmckibben writes.

On Monday morning, at the United Nations, the Secretary-General delivered his annual report on priorities—a kind of State of the Planet address. If you’re struggling to remember the name of the current Secretary-General, it’s António Guterres, who came to the job after, among other things, serving as the Prime Minister of Portugal. We’re used to the idea that “diplomatic language” is filled with euphemisms—“a full and frank exchange of views,” and so on.

I have a special message for fossil-fuel producers and their enablers scrambling to expand production and raking in monster profits: If you cannot set a credible course for net-zero, with 2025 and 2030 targets covering all your operations, you should not be in business.We need a renewables revolution, not a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence.

,” now closing in on eight years old, remains the most important document of the millennium on the climate crisis, and indeed among the best critiques ever issued on capitalism, consumerism, and our strained and unequal modernity. It’s a long document, but, if you wanted to summarize it in one of the Pope’s sentences, you could do worse than: “The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

, and recent studies have found that it has become more of a repository for precisely this kind of misinformation. As the, “the term #ClimateScam [is] now regularly the first result that appears on Twitter when ‘climate’ is searched on the site.”

 

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Other than being demonstrably false, what a great speech that makes the elite self satisfied at the expense of the world the UN purports to help.

Biggest scam in history. And that’s saying something after the bullshit Covid scam we just endured.

Climate change is bullshyt.

You should watch this:

'We need a renewables revolution, not a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence.' Thanks for speaking on behalf of the people living on this planet, unlike country leaders currying favor and cutting deals with fossil fuel companies.

You have no credibility, we don’t believe a word of it

Start with straight talk about the basics of human biology - dimorphic sex, female and male - before you proselytise about other scientific areas.

Secretary General is in the bag of the WEF. Seriously, what else did you think he would say? 2019 - Just before the pandemic. Oh, did anyone mention the Coronavirus Training Run just after the agreement and before the pandemic in Oct - Event 201?

Straight talk is needed... when are you going to start doing it?

This tweet is a man-made flood of obfuscation.

I don’t have many absolutely rules in life. Completely ignoring scientific advice from people who believe children can be born in the wrong body & need to be neutered is one of them.

What’s the rules? - only believe in science if it fits with your ideology ? - climate change is real but a woman is not? That it?

What unnatural disasters?

Scientists are finding whole cities 300ft under water, estimated 2000 years old. I guess we'll be fine.

And you'd know about MAN-made floods of obfuscation, sex denialists that you are

You’ve lost credibility

I’m always entertained by the weather man/woman explaining the daily weather disasters, polar winds, atmospheric rivers, weather bombs, hurricanes, cold warnings, wind chill factors, tornado damage, flooding, black outs, heat waves, droughts, and record breaking temperatures.

You're utterly absurd and full of 💩

You lot are living on another planet . It’s blummin freezing here up north

pish, pish, pish, pish, pish

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stop misgendering climate change

But a man can become a woman?

ECOWARRIORSS

“Forget diplomatic language—it’s a moment for some home truths.” I think it may be a moment for some Kalashnikovs.

billmckibben UN Gen Sec, Pope Francis, Al Gore & Greta Thunberg - telling climate truth the world must listen too - join us at Parliament 21 April chooseyourfuture unitetosurvive CClimateAction XRebellionUK

billmckibben it’s pointless. Big Petro owns the GOP and most US media.

billmckibben Bravo Señor Antonio! 👏

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