The planet is heating. Island nations are slipping away. A Pakistan-India nuclear war could be a "bloodbath."
So words like "existential threat" were as much a part of the leader-speech landscape this past week as the usual references to "this august body."
"We have had enough wars. We don't want new wars," said Iraqi President Barham Salih, who would certainly know. And from Roch Marc Christian Kabore, president of Burkina Faso, came this understatement: "International news has been marked by tension."
Demagogues take their rights. Warlords take their lives. Fossil fuels take their future."
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