Guterres

• The era of global warming has ended, he declared dramatically, and the era of “global boiling” has arrived.
• Do phrases like this actually help drive us towards faster and more effective climate action?
• Or do they risk making us prone to climate doomism, and risk prompting a backlash?

Rhetoric and reality

• In many ways, it’s one of the only tools he has, given the UN has global influence but limited real power.
• It’s designed to sound the alarm and trigger more radical action to stave off the worst of climate change.
• At one level, “global boiling” is clearly an exaggeration, despite the extreme summer heat and fire during the northern summer.
• Fewer doubters are trying to discredit the fundamental science than during the long period of manufactured scepticism in Western nations.
• In this context, we can see “global boiling” as an expression of humanitarian concern backed by rigorous science showing the situation continues to worsen.

The hazards of theatrical language

• Or the warnings can add to climate anxiety and make people feel there’s no hope and therefore no point in acting.
• Catastrophic language often has moral overtones – and, as we all know, we don’t like being told what to do.
• Hot language can motivate us, just as quieter, process-heavy, technocratic language can.
• It can be folded into a discourse of hope and aspiration for the future, rather than of fear and trembling.

Rethinking calamity

• The poor and marginalised, both authors observe, are already living through crises, year-in and year-out.
• They suffer what Nixon dubs “slow violence”, punctuated by dramatic environmental events such as landslides and failed harvests.
• What he’s hoping is to make people listen – and act – now we can see what climate change looks like.
• Read more:
  The climate crisis is real – but overusing terms like 'crisis' and 'emergency' comes with risk

• International support for China's response to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan has poured in from around the world.
• International support for China's response to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan has poured in from around the world.
• The article says the one-China principle is a universal consensus by the international community and a basic norm in international relations, and the political foundation of China-U.S. relations.
• China has called the visit a "deliberate provocation" a violation of the one-China principle, organized by U.S. politicians with partisan agendas that placed U.S. domestic politics above international law, Washington's international obligations, and decades of longstanding UN policy.

• CORONA, Calif., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Container Technologies, Inc (Ticker: ACTX), announced that GrowPods transportable hydroponic farms - can help reduce global food shortages.
• According to reporting in the Wall Street Journal , the war in Ukraine has disrupted global food supplies.
• Russia and Ukraine were major food suppliers before the war, and the conflict is causing pain across the developing world, spurring price shocks, constraining imports of basic commodities and causing food shortages .
• One area that is getting a lot of attention is modular hydroponic farms like GrowPods.

• "As the pandemic physically pushed us apart, the preparations for this Summit brought us together," Guterres said.
• "Through national dialogues, governments gathered together businesses, communities and civil society to chart pathways for the future of food systems across 148 countries.
• Over 100,000 people came together to discuss and debate solutions many of which are now being shared at this Summit."
• Guterres commended the Summit for "leading the way to food systems that can drive the global recovery in three fundamental ways.