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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From the above article:
“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels – period.” — António Guterres
Thus placing Mr. Guterres at the top of the list of those exemplifying the following statement:
““Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” — Bible, Romans 1:22, King James Version (KJV)
I would certainly like to know how Mr. Gutterres imagines the Industrial Revolution—with all its manifold benefits to advancing mankind’s knowledge, health, welfare and population growth—could have occurred without use of fossil fuels.
The answer to this rhetorical question will, of course, never be offered . . .
The UN and the WEF are evil communist organisations. They should be banned and the leaders put up against a wall.
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A communist who spent his entire career in academia and politics. Sure, he looks credible.
Hey, Gutty :
My concern is that interventionist UN policies are incompatible with human survival.
Guterres is incompatible with human survival.
AMG gave a perfect example( one of many) with Chinas mobile offshore processing oil rig of how They (China)move forward full tilt boogie while we the west (all of it) puts a ball and chain around our ankles. There is no way this works out well for those of us that value our liberty. I know that sounds old school 🌽 ey but it is not that complicated. I don’t know how we catch up now. Just the inflation alone caused by decoupling from China at this point would be difficult for any political party to sell to the public.
It is past the time when people like the UN Gen’l Secretary and others who speak in similar terms about ceasing the use of fossil fuels be told they must live their lives without fossil fuels and any product derived from them. They should be told to live as if it were the early 1800’s, and see just how much they like it.
As far as I can tell, the UN really doesn’t DO anything, except for a few visible activities:
I forgot about the peacekeeping, some of which has actually done a bit of good (e.g. Cyprus), others not so much (e.g. Rwanda)
Well, the UN also consumes substantial annual funding from the USA:
“The U.S. government contributed about $12.5 billion to the United Nations in 2021, the most recent fiscal year with full data available. About one-quarter of this total was assessed and the rest was voluntary.” — https://www.cfr.org/article/funding-united-nations-what-impact-do-us-contributions-have-un-agencies-and-programs
I always thought the UN existed primarily to enrich its senior employees.
“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels – period.”
So he’d prefer to return to the days when Europe was denuded of forests because they had all been cut down for firewood?
Anybody else getting blocked by you tube when they click on that Harris video?
So why are all these anti-human pieces of sh#t using fossil fuels? Every single thing they eat, drink, and wear come to them because of fossil fuels, all the medical equipment and pharmaceuticals are derived from fossil fuels, their private jets and limos, their smartphones and computers. Their entire lives are dependent on fossil fuels.
Who are these “Civil Society Groups” he’s meeting with? They are certainly not those parading in our streets these days. Martin Luther King and Gandhi were civil and intelligent and most successful. Maybe the miserable, loud, destructive, mindless hordes and their handlers should give civil and intelligent a try.
Actually, all evidence shows humans and fossil fuels are extremely compatible.
Human population was was a flat line for thousands of years then shot up 8x since the oil age began.
Which of course is the real problem. Fossil fuels enable the real carbon infestation the climate/insane abhor.
Therefore they must go.
Some of that population decline was from the Bubonic plague, starting in the 14th Century. Europe lost 1/4 to 1/3 of its population, depending on the region. Population didn’t get to pre-plague numbers until the 1700’s. Between 1500 – 1700 80% of South America was wiped out from diseases the Spanish & other Europeans brought with them that the South Americans had no immunity to.
At the end of each speech these functional morons give regarding anything, including “climate…”, fossil fuels, etc., I expect to see the ending of the Looney Tunes cartoons of my childhood. Guiterres even sorta resembles Porky Pig. Serious problem taking them seriously when they are still reaping the benefits of their self-proclaimed dire warnings.
Maybe its just me.
There is a very simple solution to this cesspool. Disconnect the UN building from the grid. I am fed up with these crackpots. The US must get out of the UN and the UN must get out of the US. Their time has past, they are a corrupt, dishonest and criminal organization.
The simplest way to make any sense of the inane utterances of a warmista, is to realize every single word they say is the exact opposite of what the truth is.
António Guterres claims that oil and gas is incompatible with human survival. It’s more correct to say that António Guterres is incompatible with human survival. What is our exit plan to remove this demented megalomaniac from office?
A certain sign of desperation.
The west expected to roll over Russia, destroy it, and break it up using sanctions for the activities in Ukraine which the west provoked over many years.
It’s the west that’s driving for a one world government using climate change as cover and the UN as its attack dog. Europe and America have been opened up to undocumented, borderless immigration, their utopian integrated world. This has been a long time in planning.
130+ countries wanting to join BRICS don’t like this idea, including Russia and China which value their national identities, and all refuse to condemn Russia for its intervention in Ukraine. They refuse to accept undocumented immigrants flooding over their borders, evidence that they aren’t interested in globalisation.
As for any suggestion that either country is attempting to destroy western nations financially, why would they bother? We are doing it to ourselves quite successfully by deindustrialising ourselves with crippling green policies like NetZero and offshoring all our industry to China which doesn’t give a monkeys about CO2.
In short, the attack dog has been employed to broadcast fantastic stories of climate doom to garner support amongst the great unwashed and keep failing governments in Germany, the UK, the US, France etc. from going under.
But they know it’s too late.
Russia invading a neighbor for the third time in 20 years was all part of a diabolical plot on the part of the west to destroy Russia?
You neglect the role Russia has played in funding the groups that are pushing the global warming and social justice nonsense.
“The west expected to roll over Russia, destroy it, and break it up using sanctions for the activities in Ukraine which the west provoked over many years.”
Typical bollox from an ex – plod.
How many do you put inside in your irrelevant little plod life as “unlawful arrest”.
Your posts as usual reek of corruption.
I wonder what an idiotic speech like that is worth from diplomatic backers. Maybe this can be quantified in per useless word metric.
Remember to throw Sri Lankans under the bus.
I was wondering when Guterres would be launching his latest “all is lost unless” proclamation, but he like the rest of the alarmists still haven’t realized that renewables like wind and solar are nowhere near capable of supplanting fossil fuels. Evidently being clueless is what’s necessary to rise in UN ranks. As for Kamala Harris, she hasn’t realized that youth aren’t losing much sleep over the climate “crisis” because, like most of the population, they don’t see one; yet she believes if government officialsw babble away long enough about one, people will start believing it actually exists.
The UN is incompatible with human survival.
Stop the framing now. We all know it’s not working. You’re not helping your pathetic cause at this point. Move on!
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I am coming to the conclusion that the UN is not compatible with human survival. Thank goodness NYC doesn’t appear to be going underwater any time in the near future. I would hate to see scum like that moving into my neck of the woods.