Dark skies: UN meeting reveals a world in a really bad mood

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The planet is heating. Island nations are slipping away. A Pakistan-India nuclear war could be a “bloodbath.” Governments aren’t working together like they used to. Polarization is tearing us apart. Killing. Migration. Poverty. Corruption. Inequality. Sovereignty violations. Helplessness. Hopelessness.

“The problems of our times are extraordinary,” Ibraham Mohamed Solih, president of the Maldives, an Indian Ocean island nation threatened by the rising waters of climate change, said at the U.N. General Assembly a few days ago.

There are those mornings when you come into work and everyone seems cranky. That’s how it felt at the United Nations this past week during the annual gathering of world leaders. Speech after gloomy speech by leaders from all corners of the planet pointed toward one bleaker-than-thou conclusion: Humanity clearly needs a spa day.

https://apnews.com/64c82e3def7e42089e8d7f713b3b6c01

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. it's the middle of WWIII -- oligarchs vs the rest of us

[Newest Reality]

2. +1

[BigmanPigman]

4. When Climate Change kills "the rest of us"

will the oligarchs' money be able to save them? Will they build islands in the sky to house them and their families or will a world wide revolution topple them?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. it's insane greed and corruption

Somehow, we have to break through the various parts of the propaganda machine.

Just the Koch industries is a giant kochtopus to battle!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212404767

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/27/christopher_leonard_kochland_koch_brothers

[Andy823]

3. And in the center of it all

We find trump! Nobody can destroy the world like trump!

[Claritie Pixie]

5. We have to kick our addiction to oil and consumption or it will only get worse.

There is no light ahead for the human race if drastic measures are not taken, if we as a collective, do not change our behavior.