🔻 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in his speech today Wednesday at COP 31 climate summit in Antalya, Turkey, warned that the world’s response to climate change has put humanity on a path of “mutual destruction.”

Guterres said: “The bitter truth is that the climate crisis is moving faster than our actions.” He added: “But science does not tell us to surrender; it tells us to fight harder. Fossil fuels should suffer the fate of the dinosaurs.”

The UN chief also warned that the world’s dependence on oil, gas, and coal, in addition to environmental damage, has also exposed countries’ economies to price shocks.

He said that three-quarters of the world’s population live in countries that are fossil-fuel importers and added: “Recent conflicts show that this dependence is a recipe for chronic insecurity and a crisis in the cost of living.”

These remarks are being made as the US and Israel’s war with Iran has disrupted Middle Eastern oil exports and led to higher energy prices.

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