Our Global War on Nature is Suicidal, Our Ocean Should Be Better Managed
World leaders spoke out yesterday on the state of the planet and the message was clear — we must stop taking the natural world for granted. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that “the state of the planet is broken,” our attitude about it is “suicidal,” and then he spent more than 10 minutes cataloging our global “crimes against nature.”
Why This Matters: Guterres implored the world to make 2021 a “leap” year — a year in which individuals, businesses, and governments make a “quantum leap” towards carbon neutrality, and when more women leaders are at the table and they take decisive action to begin to cut carbon emissions by 45% by 2030.
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