“Don’t choose extinction, save your species before it’s too late. “It is the blunt warning that he makes a dinosaur before the United Nations General Assembly in the latest UN campaign against climate change.
A surprising short film that seeks to raise awareness about global warming, whose protagonist – who knows what it is to become extinct first-hand – urges world leaders to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies in order to avoid that humanity also ends up disappearing. “Extinguishing is a bad thing,” asserts this unexpected speaker, who sends a powerful message to human beings: “At least we had a meteorite, what is your excuse?”.
“You are heading for a climate disaster And yet every year governments spend billions of trillions of public funds on fossil fuel subsidies. Imagine that we would have spent hundreds of billions a year subsidizing giant meteorites. It’s what you are doing right now! “, The dinosaur says.
In his speech, he also remembers people living in poverty around the world and asks a clear question: “Don’t you think that helping them would make more sense than paying for the downfall of your entire species?”
However, he assures that now, in the process of recovery after the pandemic, we still have “a huge opportunity” not to disappear. “It’s time for humans to stop making excuses and start making changes,” says the dino.
The objective of this Bell, prepared by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is to raise awareness about how government subsidies for fossil fuels “nullify” progress to end climate change, in addition to promoting inequality, benefiting the rich.
According to UNDP data, for every dollar pledged to tackle the climate crisis in favor of the poorest people on the planet, four are spent on fossil fuel subsidies that, precisely, perpetuate it. Specifically, $ 423 billion a year in fossil fuel subsidies for consumers. An amount, according to the UNDP, four times higher than what is needed to help poor countries cope with the climate crisis.
A situation before which this dinosaur invites us to reflect, also facing the Climate Summit to be held next week.
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