UN chief: World is at `pivotal moment’ and must avert crises

[livingston]

UN chief: World is at `pivotal moment’ and must avert crises​

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a dire warning that the world is moving in the wrong direction and faces “a pivotal moment” where continuing business as usual could lead to a breakdown of global order and a future of perpetual crisis. Changing course could signal a breakthrough to a greener and safer future, he said.

The U.N. chief said the world’s nations and people must reverse today’s dangerous trends and choose “the breakthrough scenario.”

The world is under “enormous stress” on almost every front, he said, and the COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call demonstrating the failure of nations to come together and take joint decisions to help all people in the face of a global life-threatening emergency.

Guterres said this “paralysis” extends far beyond COVID-19 to the failures to tackle the climate crisis and “our suicidal war on nature and the collapse of biodiversity,” the “unchecked inequality” undermining the cohesion of societies, and technology’s advances “without guard rails to protect us from its unforeseen consequences.”


What’s needed, Guterres said, is not new multilateral bureaucracies but more effective multilateral institutions including a United Nations “2.0” more relevant to the 21st century.

“And we need multilateralism with teeth,” he said.

The secretary-general also proposed global action to tackle disinformation and conspiracy theories and promote facts, science and “integrity” in public discourse.

“We must make lying wrong again,” Guterres said.

UN chief: World is at `pivotal moment' and must avert crises

The United Nations chief has issued a dire warning that the world is moving in the wrong direction and faces “a pivotal moment.”

apnews.com

 

[JaguarJaguarGolf]

Ah yes! Just put Me in charge and all will be well.

 

[livingston]

 

[livingston]

Small Arms: No Single Solution​

T'S TIME TO ACT AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE

a. Reduce existing stockpile

b. Reduce supply of new weapons

c. Close the gates between the legal and illegal markets

d. Reduce motivation for acquiring guns
Practical steps toward reducing the availability and misuse of small arms can be classed under four headings:
1. Reducing the existing stockpile
2. Reducing the supply of new weapons
3. Closing the gates between the legal and illegal markets
4. Reducing the motivation for acquiring guns (demand)
The existing global small arms stockpile is huge -- at least 875 million guns, according to the Small Arms Survey in Geneva. Less than 25 per cent of these are in the possession of armies, police or other government agencies; the remaining three-quarters are in the hands of civilians. Guns on earth outnumber cars by about 40 per cent. How can we reduce this enormous pool of weapons?

Small Arms: No Single Solution | United Nations

A thousand people die each day from gunshot wounds, and three times as many are left with severe injuries. If the death, injury and disability resulting from small arms were categorized as a disease, it would qualify as an epidemic. Yet the media and popular perception tend to suggest that gun...

www.un.org

 

[repete]

4. Reducing the motivation for acquiring guns (demand)
The existing global small arms stockpile is huge -- at least 875 million guns, according to the Small Arms Survey in Geneva. Less than 25 per cent of these are in the possession of armies, police or other government agencies; the remaining three-quarters are in the hands of civilians. Guns on earth outnumber cars by about 40 per cent. How can we reduce this enormous pool of weapons?
I don't see that as a problem, I see it more as deterrent to tyranny!.

 

[Saltwater60]

I’m guessing his crisis and my crisis aren’t the same.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Yawn.

 

[Jmac00]

UN chief: World is at `pivotal moment’ and must avert crises​

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a dire warning that the world is moving in the wrong direction and faces “a pivotal moment” where continuing business as usual could lead to a breakdown of global order and a future of perpetual crisis. Changing course could signal a breakthrough to a greener and safer future, he said.

The U.N. chief said the world’s nations and people must reverse today’s dangerous trends and choose “the breakthrough scenario.”

The world is under “enormous stress” on almost every front, he said, and the COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call demonstrating the failure of nations to come together and take joint decisions to help all people in the face of a global life-threatening emergency.

Guterres said this “paralysis” extends far beyond COVID-19 to the failures to tackle the climate crisis and “our suicidal war on nature and the collapse of biodiversity,” the “unchecked inequality” undermining the cohesion of societies, and technology’s advances “without guard rails to protect us from its unforeseen consequences.”


What’s needed, Guterres said, is not new multilateral bureaucracies but more effective multilateral institutions including a United Nations “2.0” more relevant to the 21st century.

“And we need multilateralism with teeth,” he said.

The secretary-general also proposed global action to tackle disinformation and conspiracy theories and promote facts, science and “integrity” in public discourse.

“We must make lying wrong again,” Guterres said.

UN chief: World is at `pivotal moment' and must avert crises

The United Nations chief has issued a dire warning that the world is moving in the wrong direction and faces “a pivotal moment.”

apnews.com

I can boil this down to a single sentence: COMPLY, OR THE RICH WILL BE MAD,

 

[Jmac00]

 

[Dr. Evil]

"The world is at a pivotal moment."

Yeah, many people are waking the fuck up.

 

[spat]

I’m guessing his crisis and my crisis aren’t the same.

Same crisis, you are just on opposite sides if it.

Our idea of the pending apocalypse is that he might get what he wants.

He is afraid that he might not.

 

[libertysnake]

We are at a pivotal moment without a doubt; a pivotal moment for fighting for our freedoms. I'm not saying we shouldn't try to do better by our planet, but the authoritarianism needs to stop. The forcing needs to stop. I will give every ounce of my effort for a peaceful solution, but I will not be made to kneel as a slave either.

 

[That_FNG]

I agree with the world being at a pivotal moment. The fucking around will soon end, and the finding out will start.

 

[libertysnake]

Just took a read over at Reddit, and the sheep are grazing hard for gov-daddy to govern harder.

 

[Deplorable Me]

"The world is at a pivotal moment."

Yeah, many people are waking the fuck up.

People woke from the UN?

 

[livingston]

Just took a read over at Reddit, and the sheep are grazing hard for gov-daddy to govern harder.

 

[Grimscale]

4. Reducing the motivation for acquiring guns

I have the best solution for #4.

Arrest each and every politician, in every country, who seeks personal power and money above the well being of their population. Place them on a deserted island somewhere, preferably in the Bermuda Triangle, and mine the hell out of the waters around it.


*Then drop a rock on it from space.

 

[meketrefe]

We are here on a lease temporarily.
If one has questions about the path forward the fact that we have survived as species for thousands of years wo countries and government s might provide some illumination into how to go about the global problems.
Otherwise evolution and mother nature will put us in our place were we belong.
What about living according to sustainable local economies and systems?
Maybe there is better idea of success that doesn't involve artificial growth and lots of waste?
Are we happier because we now have "entertainment packages" that include fake news and 400 channels that nobody can watch, yet we remain bored and unhappy?
Saturation is a real thing.

 

[GOPerfect]

I actually agree with him and with the United Nations.

The statement of, "We are at a pivotal moment" could not be any closer to the truth.

There is an awakening coming. Hell, the beginning stages are upon us.

No stopping the people now; this will only grow.

 

[Blimey]

The existing global small arms stockpile is huge -- at least 875 million guns, according to the Small Arms Survey in Geneva. Less than 25 per cent of these are in the possession of armies, police or other government agencies; the remaining three-quarters are in the hands of civilians. Guns on earth outnumber cars by about 40 per cent. How can we reduce this enormous pool of weapons?

Small Arms: No Single Solution | United Nations

A thousand people die each day from gunshot wounds, and three times as many are left with severe injuries. If the death, injury and disability resulting from small arms were categorized as a disease, it would qualify as an epidemic. Yet the media and popular perception tend to suggest that gun...

www.un.org

Yeah but like half those guns are in the USA. The answer to this question may be not to reduce guns, but to increase cars to fix that arbitrary ratio. I mean, there are less guns on the planet than used toilet paper rolls, so how do we fix this?

 

[Blimey]

Just took a read over at Reddit, and the sheep are grazing hard for gov-daddy to govern harder.

I spend time on reddit, but it's hard to avoid the very strong vein of liberal youth who permeate most of the forums.

 

[libertysnake]

I spend time on reddit, but it's hard to avoid the very strong vein of liberal youth who permeate most of the forums.

The death celebrations there are absolutely sickening. Anyone who says "hey, it's probably not a great idea to celebrate the deaths of mislead people" is immediately shot down and downvoted. Sick fucks.

 

[meketrefe]

Yeah but like half those guns are in the USA. The answer to this question may be not to reduce guns, but to increase cars to fix that arbitrary ratio. I mean, there are less guns on the planet than used toilet paper rolls, so how do we fix this?

The biggest threat to our current US society is the microchip shortage that will impact the playstation consumers.

 

[SomeSoldier]

I invite him to come to my house so we can talk about this.

 

[meketrefe]

I spend time on reddit, but it's hard to avoid the very strong vein of liberal youth who permeate most of the forums.

What about a new persecuted minority called "the fiscally responsible"?

 

[pshift]

#wokeism at it's finest. In the end, nothing (or everything) will happen.

 

[technicalgadget]

I don’t give a fuck what the UN says. The UN has zero credibility with me. They are nothing but a world army of pedophiles. They go from country to country raping and pillaging as they wish in numerous third world countries. It’s the perfect cover for fulfilling all their pedophile sexual desires. Sickening.

Former United Nations Boss Claims UN Employs 3,300 Pedophiles

A former UN aid boss claims the UN employs "at least 3,300 pedophiles" and staff could have carried out 60,000 rapes in the last decade.

newspunch.com

And the left want these people at the helm of rebuilding America? GTFOH

 

[WillyK]

“We must make lying wrong again,” Guterres said.

I do agree with that line. I've had my fill of everything, every single word you hear, being a lie.

 

[togmaster]

"The existing global small arms stockpile is huge -- at least 875 million guns, according to the Small Arms Survey in Geneva."

How did Geneva get the combo to my safe?

 

[dsdmmat]

"The existing global small arms stockpile is huge -- at least 875 million guns, according to the Small Arms Survey in Geneva."

How did Geneva get the combo to my safe?

The number 875 Million seems off by about 6.4 billion.