“There’s No Lifeboat to Take Us Back:” UN Head Demands Urgent Action Before Pacific Islands Wiped Out
HAVANA TIMES – Major polluting nations including the United States are facing new calls to pay for their role in causing the climate crisis. At a major summit in the Pacific, the message from low-lying Tuvalu was: “If you pollute, you should pay.” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres spoke in Tonga and said ocean temperatures are rising in the Pacific Islands at three times the rate worldwide.
Secretary-General António Guterres: “The world must look to the Pacific and listen to science. This is a crazy situation. Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making, a crisis that will soon swell to an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to safety. But if we save the Pacific, we also save ourselves. The world must act and answer the SOS before it’s too late.”
While people can argue all day about man made global warming let say man achieved 0 carbon. The reality is that the planet is in a warming cycle. It started 18,000 years ago and the ocean was over a hundred meters lower. This warming will continue for the next 3 centuries and rise another 10 meters or so. Almost all large coastal cities will be flooded. Nothing can be done except adjusting. As far as sea level, it basically the same everywhere subject to tides and winds. I lived in Micronesia for 3 year recently, the islands are sink back into the ocean that bore them as others rise. It is a natural cycle.
And who shall these nations pay? And will that stop so called sea levels rising? Why isn’t the sea level rising anywhere else? How is the port of Venice Italy, over a thousand years old, not swallowed by the sea? Typical Democracy Now lousy journalism.