At Columbia University on December 2, 2020, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said: “We are facing a devastating pandemic, new heights of global heating, new lows of ecological degradation and new setbacks in our work towards global goals for more equitable, inclusive and sustainable development…"
"To put it simply, the state of the planet is broken. … This is suicidal. ... Human activities are at the root of our descent towards chaos,” he explained, noting this also means humans are the ones who “can solve it.”'
Guterres also claimed “Air and water pollution are killing 9 million people annually.” He
'forgot' to say this is a very rough estimate by the World Health Organization. And almost half of the imagined deaths would be from
cooking indoors with dirty fuels.
Guterres implies fires, flooding, cyclones, hurricanes, pollution, disease, changes in sea ice and ocean temperatures, can all be blamed on climate change. Not true.
The history of natural disasters shows deaths in a down trend (chart) and they also happen to be at one of the lowest rates in history.
