Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Stop using taxpayers’ money to destroy the world: Guterres


UN News
Fires around Fort McMurray, Alberta, 2016. 
The red dots show active fires.The European Space Agency.
The idea that subsidizing fossil fuels is a way to improve people’s lives could not be more wrong, says António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, because it means spending taxpayers’ money to “boost hurricanes, spread droughts, melt glaciers, bleach corals: destroy the world.” Story here.

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