From Climate Depot
António Guterres lashed out at the fossil fuels industry following a meeting with civil society groups, the Associated Press reported. The industry, he said, is “trading the future” for money. Guterres urged them to move “away from a product incompatible with human survival.” “The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions… It’s fossil fuels – period,” he said.
By: Admin – Climate DepotJune 17, 2023 7:41 AM
“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels – period.”
UN SecGen @antonioguterres emphasizes that fossil fuels are “a product incompatible with human survival”. pic.twitter.com/dedSfAmQEX— Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative (@fossiltreaty) June 15, 2023
The United Nations secretary-general didn’t mince words when addressing how he feels about the oil and gas industry this week.
António Guterres lashed out at the fossil fuels industry following a meeting with civil society groups, the Associated Press reported. The industry, he said, is “trading the future” for money. Guterres urged them to move “away from a product incompatible with human survival.”
“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions… It’s fossil fuels – period,” he continued said.
Despite Guterres’ passionate rebuke of fossil fuel usage, the United Nations reportedly owns an entire fleet of aircraft, and is known for hosting a lavish annual climate summit that draws as many as 400 private jets, according to Breitbart News.
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UN chief says fossil fuels ‘incompatible with human survival,’ calls for credible exit strategy
BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations launched a tirade against fossil fuel companies Thursday, accusing them of betraying future generations and undermining efforts to phase out a product he called “incompatible with human survival.” …
Guterres called on the industry to put forward a credible plan for shifting to clean energy “and away from a product incompatible with human survival.”
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“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions,” Guterres said, a nod to recent comments made by Sultan al-Jaber, the United Arab Emirates official who will lead the next U.N. climate summit. “It’s fossil fuels – period.”
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An idiot, like most UN officials.
Don’t forget evil globalist as well.
The UN are the globalists.
With the west’s support they want to be the One World Government.
Never trust a Socialist.
Always trust a Socialist to be Untrustworthy
Remember too, that every political party is a socialist construct.
Russia presides the UN General Assembly. It all fits.
Not sure I get the link between Russia presiding over the UN general assembly and Guterres’ moronic Marxist rants. Perhaps you could flesh out how it ‘all fits’.
Russia wants the west to collapse. Makes it easier to take over.
Oh. By ‘west’, do you mean all the governments, including the US, that have arbitrarily, and in the absence of any scientific evidence, set forth to dismantle their entire fossil fuel and nuclear energy infrastructure? How did Russia do that given that these same governments are currently waging a hot war against Russia?
Russia, and before it, the Soviet Union have been funding the groups that have been pushing the dismantling of western economies. It isn’t just the global warming nonsense, but it’s also the idiots who want the government to provide free stuff and to ban any form of social organization that actually works.
PS, nobody is waging a hot war against Russia, unless you think that opposing Russian aggression is a form of hot war against Russia.
After the collapse of the USSR, membership in and support for radical environmental NGOs vastly increased because all other aspects of the Marxist narrative took a big hit, at least temporarily.
As for Russia supposedly attempting to destabilize the West, how is that any different from, or less moral than, the many ‘color revolutions’ that our deep state has perpetrated during our adult lives.
It shows how totally useless the UN has become.
Or as Kamala Harris said in the bonus video: “Will you unpack it for me” 🤡
Vapid. (KH, not your comment.)
Russia isn’t ‘presiding’ anything in the UN currently. The Russian representative to the UN was chair of the UN security council last month and in Feb 2022, but it changes every month – this month it’s Saudi Arabia.
They could not even stop Russia from becoming a chair. Totally toothless.
Guterres, like others before him, was not chosen for the job because of his intellectual abilities or desire to benefit the human race with his lesser abilities.
The bigger problem is that who at the UN ever is? We now have AI chatbots that can do the same job for a lot less money.
But they won’t look as prosperous.
Just following Maurice Strong’s playbook…which was that environmental issues were potential world takeover issue for the otherwise nearly toothless UN.
Aren’t you forgetting ‘hugely expensive’?
He used to be a very sincere practising catholic, since his youth up to not very long ago… It seems he abjured and converted to another religion.
China used about 4.2 BILLION METRIC TON of coal in 2022, and has plans to burn more.
India used about 1.4 BILLION METRIC TON of coal in 2022, and has plans to burn much more.
The whole world used more them 8 BILLION METRIC TON in 2022.
That coal provides low-cost electricity these countries need to feed, house and clothe their people
Gutteres likely has no idea there are literally a 100,000 everyday products that could not be made without having fossil fuels, such as car tires and asphalt roads
Growing the crops to feed 8 BILLION PEOPLE CANNOT BE DONE WITHOUT FERTILIZERS made from natural gas
Either he does not know, which is highly unlikely, or he does know, but prefers to lie through teeth and scare-monger, just to stay in the good graces of the super nut farts.
He knows full well about these things. But with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the UN needs a new global mission. Otherwise it has no reason to exist. AGW is the mission goombahs like Guterres have selected.
you forgot to mention, you couldn’t mine and transport all that lithium and copper, nor extract the rare earth metals and transport the wind farm bits around the world or produce the concrete to install them without fossil fuels.
I always wonder how such people have the nerve to make such outlandish statements..
Fossil fuels are a blessing!
Would the all-knowing God have given them to us, if he did not meant for us to use them?
CO2 IS A LIFE GAS; NO CO2 = NO FLORA AND NO FAUNA
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-a-life-gas-no-co2-no-life
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Does António Guterres have a backup plan to replace the more than 6,000 products for society, as well as manufacturing the fuels for 50,000 jets moving people and products, and more than 50,000 merchant ships for global trade flows, and the military and space programs that are all based on derivatives manufacture from crude oil?
If Antonio has the answer, he should share it with the world, as 8 billion people are populating the world (including Antonio) based upon what is manufactured from crude oil.
Ronald Stein, P.E.
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Yes. So why are we paying them? We must be even bigger idiots.
Not just an idiot. He is also a liar.
He has stated that more people are being killed by extreme weather.
Of course, that’s a completely provable lie.
As shown by the Emdat database, over the last 100 years deaths from extreme weather have dramatically fallen. Today these deaths are at a historical low. Ironically this database is used – and misused – by the UN itself.
Sadly it’s almost impossible to fight these lies, because few people – particularly the media – are listening to the sceptics.
Chris
UN climate talk makes up for the unpleasant realities of a rogue nuclear dictator invading Europe and making weekly threats of nuclear war.
Wonder how they’re going to grow food for all the billions of people in the world? Of course, while reducing the global population below one billion would go a long way, you’d still need farming and transportation.
Transport could be much shorter. Ox carts would do.
I did not vote for this Guterres fellow, and reject his arrogant, unsupported statements about global warming and fossil fuels.
Fortunately, he has self-identified as a consummate fool and anything coming from him can be considered worthless dreck – but he might get laid tonight, so mission accomplished.
I did not vote for the likes of Gates funding this totalitarian lie of a despot devoid of any worth asa human being as far as I am concerned.
He’s given away the game. Clearly the UN would like to have total control over the masses. They have now stated their intent to eliminate fossil fuels. Therefore, they know that fossil fuels create independence. Everything else is just set dressing.
Voting is so 20th century
“”Met Office warns ‘very hazardous’ thunderstorms will hit UK today””
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1781868/Thunderstorms-lightning-met-office-today
And so are run of the mill thunderstorms
One can only imagine what uncivil hysteria and demagoguery was going on in those meetings with “civil society groups”, where they plan to wipe out civilization in the name of civil society.
“trading
theyour future for money” sounds exactly what António Guterres made in those back room meetings.“product incompatible with human survival” like diesel fuel to run generators or power heavy equipment; or like fertilizers, medicines and plastics. Should we store and transport all food in paper bags and glass/metal jars? When hurricanes or other natural disasters strike, the most important thing to survival at that point is fossil fuels.
“its fossil fuels – period” Then pray tell, why has the greatest grown in human flourishing all happened under the umbrella of fossil fuel energy dominance? Or is that really the problem? Too much human flourishing?
Finding this kind of reckless statement and foolishness is pretty easy, I can go down to a homeless camp and find the nearest junkie, or poll the danger haired “teachers” in a government school to get this kind of “wisdom”.
What are we paying this clown to do? To advocate mass genocide and global famine? Granted, this is all on brand for the UN.
Food, water purification, shelter, clothing, transportation, medicine, and electronics are a few of life’s necessities that are dependent on fossil fuels. I doubt that Guterres would survive long without the benefits of fossil fuels.
He doesn’t look like he does much walking.
Ho doesn’t do much of anything that’s acceptable to civilised society.
The UN was established to bring countries together in peace. So far it’s done a crap job and by any acceptable standards should have gone the way of it’s predecessor.
If Ukraine can’t kick Russia out then the UN and NATO will be exposed as toothless wonders. I don’t think either will survive.
I bet his dinner plate doesn’t have bugs on it.
I bet his clothing isn’t all made from natural fibre either
Given adequate water, the beady-eyed little Portuguese sausage can probably go six months before slimming down to a healthy weight.
He doesn’t count himself in the population to be deprived of the very source of civilisations progress in the last 150 years.
I’m trying to figure out what he means by “it’s fossil fuels – period”.
Is he arguing that somehow fossil fuels themselves are killing people? If so, then destroying them by burning them, aren’t we saving the planet
Is he trying to argue that it is the lifestyles enabled by fossil fuels that are destroying the planet? If so, isn’t he and his lifestyle the epitome of what he wants to get rid of?
You’re trying to logically work out what is, essentially, an appeal to emotion. It’ll never work.
I had never thought of that one. Excellent! 🤣
“Too much human flourishing?”
Even that premise has been proven wrong. Despite Erhlich’s or Holdren’s wild predictions, it turns out that the developed countries (i.e. those that took advantage of fossil fuels) have a negative population growth.
To me the obvious solution to a fear of “overpopulation” is to defuse that bomb by giving the 3rd world access to fossil fuels. (Nuclear would also work, but that is also a NO-NO by these alarmist jerks.)
I agree with you George.
If the UN was doing what it was set up to do they would FORCED Russia to get out of the Ukraine the day they invaded.
The UN is a useless organization run by intending Communists and it should be de funded before they wreck the world ..
If the world needs less population the only way forward is for poor countries to lift their standard of living through the use of fossil fuels and their birthrate will drop.
Just look around the world and all countries with plenty of affordable energy have negative birth rates as that is what lifts countries out of poverty .
The only problem with fossil fuels is in the heads of these globalist elites .
“DO AS I SAY AND NOT AS I DO .”
I think it would be a test of how devoted he is to his mantra that humans are not going to survive by taking one for the team – and he could make it an exclusive event by inviting all those of his chums who are similarly guilty of gaslighting – apologies if anyone takes offence but I have had enough of these “do as I say and ignore what I do” criminals and the world would emphatically be a better place if they were “somewhere else”.
I wonder what Guterres’ bank balance was BEFORE he came to this belief: I wonder wgat it is now…
Like many in the West, I was never asked to vote on Net Poverty or and end to FFs. I’m sure, in my old bones, there will come a reckoning. It will not be pleasant – but I won’t be around then, thank God (ymmv) (thanks, Willis).
The really big kick is that will be tax exempt wherever he banks it.
And he has diplomatic immunity.
It would ad up if you read the link for the satirical publication “People With Money.”
Redge, “People With Money” is a satirical publication: It does not publish truth, only satire.
Damn, I did not know that.
Thanks Dave
Moron!
Harsh, but fair.
Harsh to morons…
This guy is FAR WORSE. !
Does António Guterres have a backup plan to replace for the more than 6,000 products for society, as well as manufacturing the fuels for 50,000 jets moving people and products, and more than 50,000 merchant ships for global trade flows, and the military and space programs that are all based on derivatives manufacture from crude oil?
If Antonio has the answer, he should share it with the world, as 8 billion people are populating the world (including Antonio) based upon what is manufactured from crude oil.
“Does António Guterres have a backup plan to replace for the more than 6,000 products for society, as well as manufacturing the fuels for 50,000 jets moving people and products, and more than 50,000″
Yes, he has joined a rowing club.
Portly Portuguese bureaucrat Tony Guitars should abjure ALL fossil fuel-derived products as well as his private jet to demonstrate how it should be done.
We should substitute the UN for FIFA Just as corrupt but at least you get some sort of vote for FIFA and Sepp Blatter was more inspirational than the UN Big Brothers and Sisters
Just another lackey of this religious cabal. Time is long past to get rid of him…..
Old farts linger. Eventually they’re gone.
So easy, just cut off power to the entire facility. Let him walk up and down the stairs and survive without lights , air conditioning, heat, computers. And he has to walk or ride a horse back home. That is what he is doing to the citizens of his country when he wants to cut off fossil fuels.
And if his wristwatch is battery driven, rip it off him.
In other news:
So while António Guterres is angling to up his social credit score, China is going whole hog into investing even deeper into this “incompatible with human survival” quest to “trade the future for money”.
And of course China’s INCREASES from today will overwhelm any emission REDUCTIONS from the US and Europe if we were to go to net zero tomorrow!
(And guess which pair of VP and SoS negotiated that agreement!)
Right, this coming from a guy as David Blackmon reports, was the head of a European oil & Gas company and participated in so many oil& gas trades that he was known as Mr.5% for his cut in every deal
If human survival with fossil fuels is impossible as Guterres claims, then how much more impossible is human survival without fossil fuels, at least for the next century or so?
Our enemies have gone mad. It’s Battle of Waterloo time, not physically, but mentally. By the way, that battle was fought 208 years ago today.
““The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions… It’s parasitic UN et al. – period,”
Corrected …
Clearly an idiot. This man Guterres cannot even string together a collection of words to make a comprehensible sentence. Just what is the meaning of “… move “away from a product incompatible with human survival … The problem is not fossil fuel emissions… it’s fossil fuels – period,” he said. Give a man a title and he loses his sanity. Surely he realizes that all of the progress in economic development and mankind since the 1800s is the result of fossil fuels. Call it climate change psychosis.
Not to mention Kackles Kamala the U.S. Vice President.
She loves short, yellow, EV buses.
Feels totally at home. !
Have the spoutings of the cabal reached a new low of absurdity? I think so.
Which one of our trolls has a history of claiming that nobody has ever claimed that climate change is a threat to life on the planet?
Nitpicking Nick?
Speaking of griff, I wonder whether he survived covid or the jab. I would prefer that he became enlightened.
I think he survived, but I doubt very much he became enlightened. I suspect he simply left WUWT for other forums where he didn’t have to think and nobody challenged his idiotic ramblings. I would bet good money that if you trawled through various forums supporting climate change or woke environmentalism you’d find him trying desperately to become a big fish in a small pond (but probably failing).
He left when it became necessary to register an account and username. He didn’t want to lose the ability to claim someone else posted with his nickname when caught in a contradiction / extreme lie.
Guterres would like everyone to stop using fossil fuels, stop eating meat, stop travelling, stop heating, cooling and lighting their homes and generally just stop enjoying life. These are all things that Gutierrez himself has conspicuously continued to do in abundance. One might safely assume this is all in the aid of ensuring that he never has to go without any amenity he enjoys because others are competing for the same resource. Greed and arrogance all combined into one giant blob of human malevolence.
And Kamala getting all aflutter about climate mental health (who knew the climate was experiencing angst) is like a wolf telling a sheep to take care of its health as the wolf bites down on the sheep’s neck.
Fossil fuel are STILL necessary for human survival and well being until a PROVEN alternative comes along. We have plenty to last us until then. There is NO empirical data that says otherwise.
Mental health problems are caused by self serving unscientific idiots like Guterres and Harris.
Her speech is a great example of the drivers of youth anxiety.
UN cannot stop wars. Cannot ameliorate famines. Cannot even help Haiti; rather it brought in cholera. Useless joke at mainly US expense. And now this. Tell it to China and India, the two most populous nations.
The UN has outlived whatever usefulness it once had – a good idea but it never worked in practice.
What a chop, and he hates humankind.
And he may not have been born if it weren’t for fossil fuels.
There, I KNEW fossil fuels were “A Bad Thing”!!!
Burning FF has increased CO2 levels and saved our green planet. Prior to the last ice age, CO2 levels were down to 200 ppm from paleo levels of 3000 ppm. At 150, most plants would have died and Earth would be similar to the Gobi desert.
Magical Thinking and Junk Science are incompatible with survival.
period
This guy and Biden are very Shakespearian– “tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”