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The latest from the United Nations can safely be summarized as the global community’s go-to group for stirring up panic. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued yet another dramatic warning about rising sea levels, this time branding it an SOS—“save our seas.” In a world already saturated with climate alarmism, this announcement is just another drop in a vast ocean of hyperbole.
Guterres, flanked by his cadre of alarmed climate scientists, painted the Southwestern Pacific as a veritable Titanic heading straight for an iceberg that no one else but him seems to recognize. According to a series of reports, the lofty predictions about melting ice sheets and rising temperatures now include a side dish of marine heat waves and ocean acidification. Apparently, climate change has decided to throw in everything but the kitchen sink as it accelerates the doom narrative.
Pacific nations in grave danger
“Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making that will soon swell to an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to safety. But if we save the Pacific, we save ourselves”#ClimateEmergencyhttps://t.co/tN7nYszoK4
— Extinction Rebellion Wimborne (@XRWimborne) August 27, 2024
During a recent tour through the idyllic islands of Samoa and Tonga, Guterres took his climate crusade to the Pacific Islands Forum, where some nations are supposedly teetering on the brink of disaster. The urgency of the message was palpable: the oceans are slowly encroaching upon island life like a leaky faucet that’s been ignored for too long. But hold the skepticism—in reality, these islanders have lived happy and productive lives for centuries. One must wonder how the Pacific Islands Forum truly feels about a narrative that suggests they can’t manage their own futures without UN intervention.
As expected, the figures accompanying these grim forecasts demand attention, notably that sea levels around Tonga have supposedly risen 8.3 inches over the last three decades, while other locales reported gains that put the region’s inhabitants in dire straits. Guterres, sounding more like a soapbox preacher than a global leader, proclaimed this a “crazy situation.” But what he conveniently glosses over is that local climate events have occurred long before modern industrialization, a factor some environmentalists would prefer to bury deep in the sand.
Rising sea levels, Guterres asserts, are allegedly a result of human activity, yet interestingly, he fails to mention that Pacific Island nations collectively contribute a mere 0.2 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, the lion’s share comes from far-off industrial giants. Even as worries swirl around the planet heating up like a summer barbecue, people should ask why the blame always seems to circle back to everyday Americans whose countries won’t even be present in the top emissions rankings.
In light of all this climate doomsday talk, humorously, one can picture the UN putting together a new reality show called “Real Melting Islands of the Pacific.” While the island nations of the Pacific cope with questionable predictions and myriad threats, they remain stunning locales where tourism and local economies flourish. The juxtaposition of beauty against a backdrop of UN alarmism only highlights the absurdity of treating islands as victims rather than champions of their own survival.
