UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (pictured) called on the world's nations to implement a number of measures to combat multiple crises, including global warming, inequality, disease and the potential for nuclear warfare in a report to the General Assembly Friday
* Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world is facing a number of problems, and that countries would have to work together to resolve them
* They include the threat of nuclear war, global warming, rising inequality and disease
* He said the Covid-19 pandemic was a wake-up call that the world's nations were not ready to address world-spanning crises
* Among the solutions were a 'UN 2.0' and new metrics to measure wealth to better account for the effects of poverty
The UN secretary-general issued a dire warning Friday that the world is moving in the wrong direction and faces 'a pivotal moment' in which business as usual could lead to a breakdown of global order and perpetual crises.
Changing course, he said, could signal a breakthrough to a greener and safer future.
In a horizon-scanning report presented to the General Assembly, Guterres said his vision for a 'breakthrough scenario' to that future is driven by 'the principle of working together ... And recognizing that no community or country, however powerful, can solve its challenges alone.'
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WNU Editor:A strange declaration from the UN Secretary General. He admits the organization is failing to help countries work together to avoid the breakdown of the global order, but his solution is to expand this failing organization.
4 comments:
Nations use the UN to game the system. The UN is creating and accelerating the break down via its business practices.
I think i have said enough to the man himself over the last few days. Problem is, like any Kingdom of old, there just ins't enough focus to go around. The world of today needs that facebook thread, where everyone can quickly and efficiently debate, rather then these long key note speakers covering hundreads of topics, or these media interviews with long winded answers that don't answer the question and just stall for time. Even our technological advancement events are just meet with investors and hedgefund managers, who will not invest in people, they want something tangable to add to their portfolios. End of the day, millennials are leap frogging this older generation but keep getting held back by lack of finances and increasing restrictions and leftist attacks.
The UN is a partisan hack.
UN Sec Gen: "No community or country, however powerful, can solve its challenges alone."
Apart from whether or not that statement is correct (it is not), there are relatively few "challenges" that stand a better chance of being solved once the UN gets involved than if it had stayed away.
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