{"id":8072,"date":"2021-02-18T17:34:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2021-02-18T17:34:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:34:18","slug":"un-says-huge-changes-in-society-needed-to-keep-nature-earth-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/un-says-huge-changes-in-society-needed-to-keep-nature-earth-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Says Huge Changes In Society Needed To Keep Nature, Earth OK"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 Humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unliveable planet through climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make dramatic changes to society, economics and daily life, a new United Nations report says.<\/p>\n

Unlike past UN reports that focused on one issue and avoided telling leaders actions to take, Thursday\u2019s report combines three intertwined environment crises and tells the world what\u2019s got to change. It calls for changing what governments tax, how nations value economic output, how power is generated, the way people get around, fish and farm, as well as what they eat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout nature\u2019s help, we will not thrive or even survive,\u201d Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. \u201cFor too long, we have been waging a senseless and suicidal war on nature. The result is three interlinked environmental crises.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus the 168-page report title is blunt: \u201cMaking Peace With Nature\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur children and their children will inherit a world of extreme weather events, sea level rise, a drastic loss of plants and animals, food and water insecurity and increasing likelihood of future pandemics,\u201d said report lead author\u00a0Sir Robert Watson, who has chaired past UN science reports on\u00a0climate change\u00a0and\u00a0biodiversity loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe emergency is in fact more profound than we thought only a few years ago,\u201d said Watson, who has been a top level scientist in the US and British governments.<\/p>\n

This year \u201cis a make-it or break-it year indeed because the risk of things becoming irreversible is gaining ground every year,\u201d Guterres said. \u201cWe are close to the point of no return.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report highlighted what report co-author\u00a0Rachel Warren\u00a0of the University of East Anglia called \u201ca litany of frightening statistics that hasn\u2019t really been brought together\u201d.<\/p>\n