UN Secretary General António Guterres has slammed the human race as a “weapon of mass extinction,” adding that the species is engaged in an “orgy of destruction.”
The remarks were made this week during the COP15 climate change and biodiversity conference in Montreal, Canada.
“Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,” the former President of the Socialist International said, adding that humans were guilty of conducting “a cacophony of chaos, played with instruments of destruction.”
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“This conference is our chance to stop this orgy of destruction.”
He also added: “The deluded dreams of billionaires aside, there is no Planet B.”
The remarks seem to echo those of World Health Organisation official from Ireland, Dr. Mike Ryan, who is head of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, which was responsible for combating Covid-19.
During the pandemic, Ryan said that “We’ve been brought to our knees by a virus – not because the virus is smart, but because we are stupid,” referring to the slow vaccine rollout across the world.
Ryan went on to describe humanity as “parasites” and “pollution” on the earth.
Dr Ryan said humans had become “parasites” on a “fragile” planet, destabilising an ecosystem that has sustained them for hundreds of thousands of years.
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“Our biome, the biologic covering that this earth has, is unstable,” he said.
“It is fragile. And we as a global community, we as a civilisation…we’ve become the parasites. We are destabilising the very ecosystem that has supported us for hundreds of thousands of years.
“In that sense, we are the pollution. We’re affecting the stability of that system is getting its payback.”