HUMANITY IS WAGING WAR ON NATURE
U.N Chief calls for a Carbon-free future The past year was an extreme year in terms of hurricanes, wildfires, and heatwaves. In addition to reports which highlighted 2020’s weather and the growing fossil fuel extraction that could potentially trigger global warming, it seems that humanity was facing a new war. The UN chief has warned that war again humanity that’s unprecedented in history draws near and could destroy our future before we have completely deciphered the risk.
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his message from Antonio Guterra was promptly followed by a global upheaval and the COVID-19 pandemic that led to governments shutting down countries for many months. There were also wildfires, storms, and hurricanes all around, which were enough to scar the globe. Guterres has stated that humanity is choosing to wage 10
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war on nature, which is quite suicidal because nature is one to strike back. Guterres states that natures have begun the process with force and fury with biodiversity slowly collapsing, a million species standing a chance of getting extinct. Ecosystems are also being lost right in front of us, and it is our activities that have led to this chaos. He states that we are also the solution to our
problem. The UN chief stated some of the wounds inflicted by humans on the natural world. Some of them included the overfished ocean, cutting down forests, spreading the desert and losing wetlands, air pollution, and the continuous human infectious diseases that come from animals. Guterres had formally spoken on these
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