UN Secretary General Guterres jumps the shark

“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions,” Antonio Guterres said, “it’s fossil fuels – period.”

https://apnews.com/article/climate-talks-un-uae-guterres-fossil-fuel-9cadf724c9545c7032522b10eaf33d22

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/un-chief-claims-fossil-fuels-are-incompatible-human-survival

Excerpt of Guterres bio (link below).

Guterres studied physics and engineering at the Universidade de Lisboa’s elite Instituto Superior Técnico, earning a degree in 1971. His time as a student was marked by the decline of the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar, and Guterres was active in the protest movement that helped to topple Salazar’s successor, Marcello Caetano, in 1974. After graduating, Guterres worked as a physics instructor, but, as Portugal began its transition to democracy, he became more active in politics. He joined the Socialist Party in 1974, and two years later he was elected to the Portuguese parliament.

In 1992 he was elected secretary-general of the Socialist Party, and in 1995 he was elected prime minister of Portugal at the head of a minority government. During his term Guterres oversaw Portugal’s transition to the euro as its official currency and presided over the transfer of Macau to Chinese sovereignty.  …After the Socialists were soundly beaten in local elections in December 2001, Guterres resigned, and in early legislative elections held in March 2002, the Socialists were swept from power.

In 2005 the UN General Assembly elected Guterres to serve as the High Commissioner for Refugees…

On October 13, 2016, the United Nations General Assembly elected Guterres to serve as UN secretary-general.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antonio-Guterres bio above

“Along with a stint as prime minister of Portugal from 1995-2002, Guterres also served as president of the Socialist International, from 1999-2005, following a stint as vice-president of the organization from 1992-1999.”

Website for Socialist International: https://www.socialistinternational.org/

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2 Responses to UN Secretary General Guterres jumps the shark

  1. Pingback: Responses to UN Secretary General Guterres’ suicide pact | budbromley

  2. petroalbion's avatar petroalbion says:

    What ever will we use to make ‘things’ other than unreliable electricity, in the glorious UN inspired Third Industrial Revolution, if there is no crude and no coal?
    Howard

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