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 AntĆ³ nio 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.