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Living in Bomb Time — Ep. 11
UN Chief Communicator on Climate Team calls for “Hope, Unity, and Action”
No One is Happy
So, Melissa Fleming, Chief Communicator #United Nations, wrote an open letter July 28th here on Medium (https://medium.com/we-the-peoples/climate-crisis-is-here-there-is-only-one-solution-1a82c3682068). In it, she reiterates the plea from UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres for urgent investment to protect the world’s most vulnerable from the intensifying onslaught of extreme weather events. She asks that we hold to our values of generous collaboration, bold leadership, and compassion and “wield the power that lies in collective action”.
I thought it was an articulate and eloquent call to remain hopeful and not despair at the magnitude of the challenge. It’s clear why Melissa has “Chief Communicator” as a title.
Most of the commentary here, from both sides, has been harsh and dismissive. The Climate Action Resistors (CARS) because Global Warming is a “Phantom Menace” that’s going to be used as a pretext for “Them” to impose a “New World Order” on Americans to enslave us. The Climate Activists because it does not call for an immediate seizure of all Oil Company assets, complete conversion of the world’s vehicle fleet to EV by 2030, and a mandate to force vegetarianism on everyone.
