The Crisis Report — 14

It’s not “crazy” to think that people who have privileged access to information will generally not tell you everything they know.

UN Secretary General Guterres spoke to the UN Security Council on February 14th. Does anyone remember what he said?

So.

I am in the process of writing my analysis of Biden’s, Putin’s, and Xi’s performances over the last few days. A LOT is happening in the world. Things are not getting better. In fact the global situation seems to be deteriorating at an accelerating rate.

Conspicuously absent from the conversation is the worsening CLIMATE CRISIS.

Lately, the only person talking about the CLIMATE CRISIS is UN Secretary General Guterres. He has been giving “barn-burner” speeches on the worsening climate situation since last September.

Here’s what he said at COP27.

We’re on a ‘highway to climate hell,’ UN chief Guterres says, calling for a global phase-out of coal CNBC 110722

Here’s what he was talking about last week. Instead of talking about Ukraine.

UN chief: Rising seas risk ‘death sentence’ for some nations AP 021423

Secretary-General’s remarks to the Security Council Debate on “Sea-level Rise: Implications for International Peace and Security” UN 021423

Mr. Guterres warned the Security Council that, under any temperature rise scenario, countries from Bangladesh to China, India and the Netherlands will all be at risk.

Mega-cities on every continent will face serious impacts, including Lagos, Bangkok, Mumbai, Shanghai, London, Buenos Aires and New York.

The danger is especially acute for some 900 million people living in coastal zones at low elevations

–one out of every ten people on earth.

Sea level rise poses ‘unthinkable’ risks for the planet, Security Council hears UN 021423