“How many deaths and devastated countries do we need, in order to recognize that climate change is a threat to the planet and it is everyone’s responsibility to reverse it?”
This was asked on Monday by the Venezuelan Chancellor, Jorge Arreaza during his speech at the 72nd general assembly of the United Nations, which is being held in New York, United States.
In his speech, the diplomat referred to the devastation suffered by several nations of the American continent and the Caribbean, as a product of the fury of nature as are the passage of hurricanes of magnitudes never seen before.
Arreaza warned of the urgency to take decisive actions to reverse these effects, and described as unusual and hostile the fact that the United States, which is one of the largest pollutants in the world, withdrew from the Paris Agreement, adopted by 195 countries in December 2015, which paves the way to a sustainable world through drastic changes in the global economy.
“It is always the small nations that are the main victims of the war hoisted by developed countries against mother nature, so we must rescue the slogan of social movements: Do not change the climate, change the system”, he said.
In his view, the restoration of physical infrastructure and the use of resistant construction techniques can not fall on the affected countries, must count on the contribution of the powers that affect the climate and pollute the planet.
