Humanity is waging a 'suicidal' war on nature, UN chief warns
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
Updated 9:58 AM ET, Wed December 2, 2020
A woman looks at the destruction in Haulover, a community south of Bilwi in Nicaragua, on November 28, days after the passage of Hurricane Iota.
(CNN)UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres issued a searing indictment of humanity's "war" on the environment Wednesday, in a speech on the state of the planet in which he urged everyone to prioritize "making peace with nature."
"We are facing a devastating pandemic, new heights of global heating, new lows of ecological degradation and new setbacks in our work towards global goals for more equitable, inclusive and sustainable development," Guterres said in the address, delivered at Columbia University in New York.
"To put it simply, the state of the planet is broken."
