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Published: January 5th 2023
“Our planet is broken,” the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has warned.
Humanity is waging what he describes as a “suicidal” war on the natural world.
“Nature always strikes back, and is doing so with gathering force and fury,” he told a BBC special event on the environment.
Mr Guterres wants to put tackling climate change at the heart of the UN’s global mission.
In a speech entitled State of the Planet, he announced that its “central objective” next year will be to build a global coalition around the need to reduce emissions to net zero.
Net zero refers to cutting greenhouse gas emissions as far as possible and balancing any further releases by removing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.
Mr Guterres said that every country, city, financial institution and company “should adopt plans for a transition to net zero emissions by 2050”. In his view, they will also need to take decisive action now to put themselves on the path towards achieving this vision.
The objective, said the UN secretary general, will be to cut global emissions by 45% by 2030 compared with 2010 levels.
In the first draft of this post, Greta Thunberg’s appeal was presented in the title and at the top of the text, followed by the speach of the UN Secretary General who is mentioned in Greta’s address.
Before publishing the post, I changed the order of things and put in the title and at the top the text of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speech, assuming that the description of the situation and the warnings coming from the UN Secretary General will be taken into account by those for whom Greta Thunberg is an “annoying girl who suffers from Asperger”.
There’s something I would like to talk about – our relationship with nature is broken, but relationships can change .
The climate crisis, ecological crisis, and health crisis – they are all interlinked, we no longer see the links between them – we only see this far – Today.
So what will we do?
My name is Greta Thunberg and I would like to connect the dots, because let’s face it – if we don’t change – we are fucked.
Millions have died from covid 19, Zika, ebola, West nile fever, Sars, Aids. Up to 75 of all new diseases come from other animals because of the way we farm and treat nature, cutting down forests and destroying habitats, we are creating the perfect conditions for diseases to spill over from one animal to another, and to from them us. The next pandemic could be much much worse, but we can change.
83 percent of the world’s agricultural land is used to feed livestock, yet livestock only provide 18 percent of our calories.
The way we make food – raising animals to eat, clearing land to grow food to feed those animals. If we continue we will run out of land and food. it just doesn’t make sense.
The land requirements of meat and dairy production are equivalent to an area the size of north and south america combined. From Alaska to Tierra del fuego. We have industrialized life on earth.
If we keep making food the way we do, we will also destroy the habitats of most wild plants and animals driving countless species to extinction. This really sucks for us too. They are our life supporting system. If we lose them, we will be lost too.
In the words of the United Nations secretary general Antonio Gutteres – “Humanity is waging war on Nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back, and it is already doing so with growing force and fury.
And what about the Climate? We know that we need to drastically reduce our emissions, starting NOW.
what we think about the villains of the climate crisis of course we picture fossil fuel companies, but agriculture and land use together are about one quarter of our emissions. This is huge! it doesn’t have to be like this.
If we change towards a plant-based diet, we could save up to 8 billion tons of CO2 every single year!. We could feed ourselves on much less land, and nature could recover – Pandemics, Biodiversity, Climate disruption, Acidification of Oceans, inequality, fertile top soil.
These are all just symptoms. What they all come down to is the way we treat nature the way we value nature.
We need a system change, but we can fix this because we are part of nature.
When we protect nature, we are nature protecting itself.
And finally the animals – what about their thoughts and feelings? some animals plan for the future, forge friendships that last for decades. They play, they help each other, they show signs of what we call empathy, but 70 percent of the animals we farm live inside factories.In the united states that number is 99 percent. Their lives are short and terrible.
how will we be judged?
It is heartbreaking to know all this, but it is also our opportunity. We know what we can do – We can change the way we farm; We can change what we eat; We can change how we treat nature. Some of us have lots of choices while some have none at all. Those with the most power have the most responsibility and most of us can do something.
So – What will you do?
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