The “Threat To Humankind”

Biggest Threat to Humanity? Climate Change, U.N. Chief Says

Somini Sengupta, March 29, 2018 (NY Times)

“…[Climate change is “the most systemic threat to humankind,” United Nations secretary general António Guterres said as he] urged world leaders to curb their countries’ greenhouse gas emissions…Mr. Guterres suggested that [the White House’s] withdrawal from the Paris accord nearly a year ago didn’t matter much. The American people, he said, were doing plenty…Mr. Guterres is planning a summit meeting next year to goad world leaders to raise their emissions reductions targets…[F]ew countries are even close to meeting the targets they set under the Paris agreement…His warnings came a week after the World Meteorological Organization, a United Nations agency, reported that a barrage of extreme weather events had made 2017 the costliest year on record for such disasters, with an estimated $320 billion in losses…Mr. Guterres said floods in South Asia had affected 41 million people and that drought had driven 900,000 people from their homes in Africa…” click here for more

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