United Nations (COP15)

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At a recent UN biodiversity conference, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres sounded the alarm on environmental destruction. His remarks below:


Ecosystems have become playthings of profit.


With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction.


We are treating nature like a toilet.


And ultimately, we are committing suicide by proxy.


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