Explicit metaphors to raise awareness of the importance of the subject to world leaders.
Faced with global warming and its accelerating impacts, humanity must "cooperate or perish", warned the UN Secretary General at COP27 on Monday, giving the world a choice, "solidarity" or "a collective suicide.
“Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish.
It's either a Climate Solidarity Pact or a Collective Suicide Pact,” Antonio Guterres said at the opening of the climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
I have just warned global leaders at #COP27:
We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.
Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.
We urgently need #ClimateAction.
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) November 7, 2022
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In a deeply divided world, he repeated his call for the creation of a “historic pact between developed and developing economies, a Pact of collective solidarity”.
“We are on the highway to climate hell”
The UN leader chained the comparisons.
"We're on the highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator," he said, paraphrasing Australian hard rock band AC/DC.
If the other crises will pass, the climate is “the defining issue of our time”, which it would be “unacceptable, scandalous and self-destructive” to relegate “to the background”, hammered Mr. Guterres.
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