The planet has had a difficult summer. Extreme summer storms, caused by human-generated climate change, have caused a number of fires and deepened the dry spell in some areas.
The Secretary General of the UN doesn't want to lose sight of the situation. The UN leader made his position on the climate crisis clear in a video message to ministers on Monday.
The state officials were told that they had a choice. It's either collective action or collective suicide. We have control of it.
According to The Guardian, the UN chief's remarks came during the Moscow Climate Dialogues, a conference in Berlin focused this year on severe weather, fossil fuel and food prices.
Half of the world's population is in the danger zone due to floods, storms, and fires. No nation is free of disease. We still feed our addiction.
The leader made it clear that everyone is at risk, but he was careful to say that underdeveloped countries will be hit the hardest.
People in Africa, South Asia and Central and South America are more likely to die from extreme weather events than people in other parts of the world. The injustice cannot continue.
The UN's Cop 27 climate summit will be held in Egypt this November, and the Berlin meeting is one of the last chances for key nations to agree on a final plan. Hopefully, the UN head's statements landed, but at the end of the day, it's up to individual countries to actually change.
UN chief warns of climate crisis as humanity faces 'collective suicide'.
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