This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Humanity is waging a “senseless and suicidal” war on nature that is causing human suffering and enormous economic losses while accelerating the destruction of life on Earth, the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has said. Guterres’s starkest warning to date came at the launch of a UN report setting out the triple emergency the world is in: the climate crisis, the devastation of wildlife and nature, and the pollution that causes many millions of early deaths every year. Making peace with nature was the defining task of the coming decades, he said, and the key to a prosperous and sustainable future for all people.
Human Destruction Of Nature Is “senseless And Suicidal”
Damian Carrington, Mother Jones
Sat, 02/20/2021 - 4:00am
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