Essay by Eric Worrall
UN Secretary General António Gutteres is doubling down on his shrill climate demands, as he approaches the final stretch of his zero achievement term of office.
Pacific in peril: UN urges Australia to block new coal and gas projects
By Bianca Hall
August 27, 2024 — 11.25amWealthy countries like Australia must immediately phase out fossil fuels and block new coal projects and oil and gas expansion to drastically reduce greenhouse emissions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in Tonga on Tuesday.
The UN issued a global SOS – what Guterres described as a “save our seas”, releasing new data from NASA and the World Meteorological Organisation that showed sea-level rises had doubled since the 1990s.
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“Without drastic cuts to emissions, the Pacific islands can expect at least 15 centimetres of additional sea-level rise by mid-century, and more than 30 days per year of coastal flooding in some places,” Guterres told reporters at the forum.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/pacific-in-peril-un-urges-australia-to-block-new-coal-and-gas-projects-20240823-p5k4ue.html
The demand is especially funny because fossil fuel is a key component of solar and wind power. Coal is an essential ingredient of solar panels, while oil and gas are essential components of the epoxy or polyester plastic used to form wind turbine blades. An end to coal, oil and gas projects, especially metallurgical coal, would also spell the end of the renewable revolution.
But I guess you’d need to know something about science and engineering to understand the relationship between fossil fuel and “green” energy.
As the forgettable Gutteres approaches his final stretch, an interesting question is who will replace him.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is currently a player in the global censorship push, is a long shot possibility. She seems a very random kind of person, she made a speech in 2023 equating climate skepticism with gun violence. If she serves the UN as well as she served the people of New Zealand, with any luck the United Nations would suffer total dissolution by the end of a Jacinda term as UN Secretary General.
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António Gutteres was a brilliant high school student. At university he studied physics and electrical engineering. He immediately worked in academia as a professor, and then pursued socialist politics as a result of his public speaking skills.
Always living off “the system’ whether his parents, public school, or government run academia, he is the classic case of the kid who never grew up philosophically and believes that it’s best if the state controls everything….since it’s been good to him. He also believes in Maurice Strong’s UN supposition that eco and climate issues would be a viable wealth distribution method from rich to poor countries, with the UN as a middleman.
Historically, these types of personalties have resulted in many deaths…think Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot…millions died for nothing except their leaders vanity, whether objecting to the political philosophy or carrying a rifle in support.
‘António Gutteres was a brilliant high school student.’
Dullards that commit murder or other crimes on a small scale are a dime a dozen. Only highly intelligent and, more often than not in today’s world, highly educated people are capable of believing that socialism in any of its forms ‘works’.
The bad news is that you can never disabuse socialists in the nobility of their ends. The good news is that you can inoculate yourself and others against socialism by understanding the inevitable means required to pursue it:
https://mises.org/mises-wire/socialists-it-doesnt-matter-if-socialism-works-what-matters-power
Socialism has been very good to China. They have dramatically increased their average lifespan under it.
Are you sure that isn’t because of the widespread use of fossil fuels and the benefits fossil fuels bring in heating, cooling, medicines etc?
it’s modernity that’s been good to China- not socialism
and most of that modernity was copied from the West
Did the French invent the steam engine? Nope, but they use it.
Did the Americans invent the TV? Nope, but they use it.
Did the Dutch invent the bicycle? Nope, but they use it.
Did the Germans invent pneumatic tyres? Nope, but they use them.
Modernity?
The Chines invented:
The banknote (618–907)
The blast furnace (202 BC – AD 220).
Borehole drilling (202 BC – 220 AD).
Hydraulic-powered bellows (202 BC – 220 AD).
The mechanical belt drive (53–18 BC).
The bristle toothbrush (1487–1505).
Dental amalgam (618–907 A.D.).
The use of chromium was invented in China no later than 210 BC
Then there’s gunpowder.
All part of modernity.
“All part of modernity.”
Not really – maybe early modernity- but not modern industrialism which is what has been good for China. And they didn’t invent much of that. Like Japan after WWII, good at copying, then later, maybe some improvements.
Are you saying that the blast furnace isn’t part of modernity?
The banknote, borehole drilling, dental amalgam?
I have never heard the term “early modernity” before. Perhaps you could define that relative to ‘modernity’ for me.
Meanwhile the steam engine, the TV, the bicycle and the pneumatic tyre are all products of ‘modern’ modernity and they, amongst many other inventions, have been copied all over the civilised and not to civilised world.
Are we to dismiss the French, Dutch, Americans and Germans as copy-cats, and products and services developed with the aid of these products as without merit or value?
Hey Scotty, Chinese prosperity is 100% due to the West and Japan moving factories to China. I give China credit for brilliantly making the most of it.
How can Chinese prosperity be 100% due to the west when China provided all the labour, land, infrastructure and much of the finance for it all?
You forgot the telephone and probably the biggest world changer in medicine, penicillin. A clean sweep of Scots inventors.
I didn’t want to make it too obvious.
Here’s a quick response from perpexity.ai in answer to the question” What political system is used by China”. If you want to be further educated as opposed to your brain being hijacked by Western fake news-media sound-bites, ask some further questions, for example about carbon dioxide emissions and the real pollution issues generated by the system which, I might add, are probably not in your back yard:
Answer
China operates under a one-party authoritarian system led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has maintained control since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. This political structure is characterized by the following features:
Political Structure
Governance and PolicyChina’s governance is marked by democratic centralism, where decisions made by the party leadership are binding on all members. The CPC employs a bureaucratic structure that extends down to local levels, ensuring that party directives are implemented uniformly across the country. The political system lacks a separation of powers, which is a hallmark of many democratic systems, leading to a centralized form of governance where the party controls all aspects of political life, including media and civil society.In summary, China’s political system is a communist party-led authoritarian regime characterized by centralized control, lack of political pluralism, and significant state intervention in various aspects of life, including media and civil liberties.
The Chinese operate communism at government level. At peasant level they operate naked Capitalism, which is why more Rolls Royces are sold in China than in any other nation in the world (allegedly).
This was a deliberate move by the Chinese following the disaster of Mao’s Great leap Forward which starved millions of people to death.
Since then one billion Chinese citizens have beed dragged from extreme poverty to prosperity, a feat no other nation on earth has ever achieved.
The west, on the other hand, seems determined to drag one billion people across the US and Europe back to Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
The Chinese do not like the prospect of declining western economies. We are it’s biggest customer and without us fat and wealthy enough to buy its goods, the Chinese nation returns to starvation.
And whilst the Chinese and Russians have dramatically adjusted their political, commercial and social frameworks to adapt to changing times over the past 50 years, what have western ‘Liberal Democracies’ changed over the last few hundred years in our political, commercial, and social frameworks to adapt to a changing world?
We’re now the ones censoring Russian citizens.
Please allow me to summarize:
China has prospered from abandoning state communism in favor of state fascism.
Conversely, here in the West, we seem determined to abandon free market liberalism in favor of state fascism, at least as a temporary stop on our way to state communism.
Seems fair.
Gutteres is a socialist criminal and should be in jail.
There are a lot of those in the UN !
The UN has gone past its use-by-date for quite some time.
If Ardern were to become UN secretary general and lead the UN into into the oblivion that it deserves she will have finally achieved something useful in her life.
Guterres is nothing less than a criminal and should be prosecuted as such. His claims of the Earth being on fire and the Oceans are boiling, are pure scaremongering. He promotes this nonsense, given a free platform to go unchallenged, knowing he is lying. There is no other term for this other than fraud.
Here’s an idea: Move the UN headquarters to the lowest CO2-per-capita emitting country on the planet and show us all how it’s done. We’ll be waiting to hear all about it.
Better yet, move the UN to South Georgia Island, and then destroy any ports and airports.
How about the middle of Africa- with no AC.
Guterres zero achievement in office – not unusual for a communist.
I’m sure he would willingly consider exemptions for people and industries that “really need” fossil fuels – plastic item manufacturers, the military, politicians. You and me, though, we’re shirt out of luck.
“as he approaches the final stretch of his NET zero achievement term of office”
fixed it 🙂
This is the organisation created to resist conflict around the world and promote peace and harmony following WW2, which it’s failed predecessor The League of Nations, charged with the same objective, entirely failed to stop.
Since then we have had, getting on for, one major conflict a year across the planet, around 70+ so far.
Without any acknowledgement of this, and barely a blush, the cause of international peace has been sidelined by the distraction of Climate Change and Global Health, including a succession of well promoted pandemics which were never historically in evidence. Fortunately most in the ‘civilised’ west are wising up and ignoring the costly campaigns to have us all ‘vaccinated’.
And as the climate scam moved on from encouraging us all to save energy in the 80’s, to spaffing taxpayers money on unreliable wind and solar, so we will move from being encouraged to take medication, to being taxed to support the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex to churn out medications, most of which will end up in landfill. Mexican drug cartels are more successful than the UN in that respect.
Time for the self perpetuating UN to go.
Oh dear. There is not the slightest chance that the Moana Loa Keeling curve will be checked by any actions by the West whether natural or Asian coal.
The UN is a massive, publicly funded satire of good government which an alarming number of people still seem to take seriously. It is where reason and benevolence take their last breath and where hypocrisy and corruption bloom.
Utterly ridiculous. Time to put a missile through the roof of the UN during a General Assembly gathering having first made sure that BRICS nations and their friends are forewarned. Not that I’m advocating violence – Trump/Vance winning in November and cutting off U$ funding would be even better.
I urge Western Nations to phase out the UN.