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Humanity has "broken the water cycle, destroyed ecosystems and contaminated groundwater," the UN secretary-general says at the opening of the first major UN meeting on water resources in nearly half a century. "We are draining humanity's lifeblood through vampiric overconsumption and unsustainable use, and evaporating it through global heating," Antonio Guterres says, describing water as "a human right." SOUNDBITE
UN rights chief Volker Turk says Russia's war in Ukraine is "tugging us away from the work of building solutions, the work of ensuring our survival." Speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Turk denounced horrific abuses carried out since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine 13 months ago. SOUNDBITE
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slams multinational corporations for turning the world's ecosystems into "playthings of profit" and warns failure to change course would lead to catastrophic results."With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction," he says, in a speech ahead of biodiversity talks in Montreal. SOUNDBITE
UN head Antonio Guterres warns that humanity is "just one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation," with the world facing a threat "not seen since the height of the Cold War." Guterres opens the start of a conference of countries belonging to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by saying, "we have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict." SOUNDBITE
The coronavirus pandemic is presenting an "unprecedented opportunity" for the world to "come together against an enemy against humanity". SOUNDBITE N°1Q02A8
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