Manufacturing Consent
The dangerous campaign behind climate emergency declarations
Matthew Nisbet
Jun 4
In his opening video-cast address to the December 2020 United Nations “Climate Ambition Summit,” Secretary-General António Guterres confronted head on the paradoxical nature of the moment: an escalating global pandemic had engulfed the world in a more immediate crisis than climate change.
It was 2020 that was supposed to be the pivotal moment when the world shifted towards rapidly cutting heat trapping carbon emissions. But the pandemic had forced the postponement of the UN summit scheduled for Glasgow, Scotland in which countries would ramp up their 2015 UN Paris treaty pledges.
“Five years after Paris, we are still not going in the right direction,” Guterres noted in the opening to his Climate Ambition speech. “If we don’t change course, we may be headed for a catastrophic temperature rise of more than 3 degrees this century.”
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