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.

Richard Crim
16 min readFeb 22, 2023
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

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Richard Crim

My entire life can be described in one sentence: Things didn’t go as planned, and I’m OK with that.