On the eve of international climate talks, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited globally-important Antarctica, where ice that’s been frozen for millions of years is melting due to human-caused climate change, sending the message that “we absolutely need to act immediately.”
The fucking hubris of man. Antarctica should be off-limits for everyone except science teams. Yet here we go, the most important of the importants (not really, but I guess he feels like that) goes for a fieldtrip polluting the place just like any other cruise ship. And for what? A fucking publicity stunt. The message he sent is “this whole planet including this one extremely unhospitable, legally uninhabitable piece of ice is our playground. It’s no big deal to just pack up and randomly drop by Antarctica en route to Dubai.” Mate, this way of thinking is what brought us to where we are now. You’re not helping.
I think the point is to draw global attention to the severity and urgency of climate change. It’s such a crisis that the head of the UN is trying to draw attention to it which, I think, is much better for climate change than no attention at all…