THIS POST IS A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE LANGUAGE USED BY WORLD LEADERS IN A DISCUSSION ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE.

LINK TO SOURCE: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/24/mutual-suicide-us-issues-stark-warning-on-climate-change

1. John Kerry: Our heads are in the sand. It’s mutual suicide.
2. The United States has warned inaction by world powers on climate change is tantamount to a “mutual suicide pact”.
3. The Pentagon has described the climate crisis as “a threat multiplier”.
4. Even though climate change has been repeatedly called ‘an existential threat’, we honestly have yet as a world to respond with the urgency required
5. Climate change is the most complex and compelling security issues that the world has ever faced.
6. Failing to address climate change is “marching forward to what is tantamount to a mutual suicide pact.
7. We bury our heads in the sand at our own peril. It’s urgent to treat the climate crisis as the urgent security threat that it is.
8. Experts believe the world must reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 to ensure long-term warming is held to no more than 1.5C to avoid triggering catastrophic climate tipping points.
9.  World leaders must take immediate action on the climate crisis or face worsening global instability
10. It is a matter of when, not if, your country and your people will have to deal with the security impacts of climate change
11. There are people around the world who will say that climate change is green stuff from a bunch of tree-hugging tofu munchers and not the stuff of international diplomacy but I couldn’t disagree more profoundly.
12. Climate change is causing 16 million people to be displaced by weather-related disasters each year, some becoming easy prey to armed groups, farmers losing another wheat harvest because of drought and switching to growing opium poppies, and girls forced to drop out of school to search for water and thereby becoming prey to human traffickers. {climate change causes young girls to become prey to human traffickers}.
13. Africa will suffer the worst consequences of climate change despite being the least responsible for global greenhouse gases.
14. The climate change drought in the Horn of Africa is drying out the Lake Chad basin, shrinking the Sahel and savannah grasslands, and worsening economic vulnerabilities and these in turn have set in motion political, demographic, migratory dynamics that increase the threat of insurgency and violent extremism.
15. Our last best hope is that the UK has committed into law a target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and will host the COP26 climate summit in November in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
16. John Kerry: The Glasgow conference is literally our last best hope to get on track and get this right.
17. John Kerry: The United States is hosting its own summit on April 22 where it will announce its renewed carbon-reduction commitments.
18. Emmanuel Macron: What the world needs is a special UN envoy for climate security.
19. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas: What we need is regular reporting on the security implications of climate change by UN Security General Guterres.
20. David Attenborough: If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that bring us our security including food, water, habitable temperatures.
21. David Attenborough: We have left the stable and secure climatic period that gave birth to our civilization.
22. There is no going back.
23. If we act fast enough we can reach a new stable state.
24. Young people under the age of 18 are more likely than any other age group to say climate change is an emergency, a new survey from the United Nations Development Programme has found.
25. People’s Climate Vote: Majority sees climate change as emergency
26. A cutting-edge survey used mobile gaming apps in 17 languages to ask 1.2 million people about climate change and found that climate change is a global crisis.
27. As the US rejoins the Paris Agreement, rich nations fail to pay costs to help poorer countries adapt to climate change.
28. Melting glaciers and rising seas are approaching climate tipping points.
29. Glaciers have shrunk at high speed raising fears of more climate refugees.

TRANSLATION: THE WEAKER THE CASE, THE STRONGER THE LANGUAGE NEEDS TO BE.