With COVID fear-mongering all but dead at the corporate media newsrooms, Telemundo wasted no time in switching the former biggest threat to humanity with climate change. The swap came up in a story about a United Nations report where anchor Felicidad Aveleyra proceeded to dispatch the escalating war in Ukraine as second to diverting climate doomsday, thus echoing former Secretary of State John Kerry´s words during an interview that aired over BBC last week.
Do something to save us from extinction, "Act now" as opposed to others who selfishly "are staging a war", said Aveleyra; in addition to it callousness, the comment mirrors the latest Armageddon talking points pushed by Kerry, prioritizing the so-called climate crisis (and Putin´s playing along) over Russia´s invasion of Ukraine.
Watch as Aveleyra and reporter Lourdes Hurtado, sow fear in this excerpt of a report that aired on February 28, 2022, over Noticias Telemundo Mediodía:
FELICIDAD AVELEYRA: Life on earth will become more difficult and harder to cope with due to the terrible effects of human activity that daily damage the planet. This is the warning made by the UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL PANEL OF EXPERTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE. Lourdes Hurtado expands. Go ahead Lourdes, we are listening.
LOURDES HURTADO: That´s right Felicidad. The climate crisis is not a distant or future problem, some of its effects are already irreversible and are putting humanity and ecosystems around the world at risk.
This is explained in a new report by the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change, an assessment of the climate crisis by 270 scientists from 67 countries.
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The resolve of all decision-makers among governments, private industry and society as a whole is critical to addressing this crisis. Felicidad, back to you at the studio.
AVELEYRA: Well Lourdes, it couldn´t be clearer, and we have to act now... while some are waging war.
Hurtado began the report in typical fatalist fashion: "The climate crisis is not a distant or future problem, some of its effects are already irreversible and are putting humanity and ecosystems around the world at risk." And what, exactly, are those events leading to our extinction? Heat waves, floods and droughts (Earth´s inclement weather?) all of which will magically be resolved if we follow the "adaptation strategies and other solutions to build resilience to the impacts of climate change" detailed in the UN study, as per Telemundo.
Aveleyra, for her part, echoed Kerry´s words about how he hopes that "President Putin will help us stay on track doing the stuff we need to do with the climate", as if the invasion of Ukraine by Russian armed forces were insignificant next to going vegan and not bathing for days to save water. How dare you!
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FELICIDAD AVELEYRA: Life on earth will become more difficult and harder to cope with due to the terrible effects of human activity that daily damage the planet. This is the warning made by the UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL PANEL OF EXPERTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE. Lourdes Hurtado expands. Go ahead Lourdes, we are listening.
LOURDES HURTADO: That´s right, Felicidad. The climate crisis is not a distant or future problem, some of its effects are already irreversible and are putting humanity and ecosystems around the world at risk.
This is explained in a new report by the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change, an assessment of the climate crisis by 270 scientists from 67 countries. The report also yielded evidence that any further delay in global climate action will cause us to miss that brief window we still have to secure a habitable future on this planet if warming exceeds 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
Among the serious warnings made in this new assessment is the fact that the most affected people and ecosystems are also the least able to cope with the situation including lower-income populations and coastal regions that are at risk of rising sea levels. This is the case, for example, of cities like Miami. This report notes that there are serious potential problems in the infrastructure of coastal areas and projects that approximately one billion people globally could be impacted by these coastal climate hazards in the medium term. The outlook is especially grim for food systems. The effects of the climate emergency on the availability of water and food are quite worrying as heat waves, floods and droughts currently expose millions of people around the world to severe food and water uncertainty. However, there is still hope; we have time to stop the most devastating effects if we prepare properly. The report offers adaptation strategies and other solutions to build resilience to the impacts of climate change.
The resolve of all decision-makers among governments, private industry and society as a whole is critical to addressing this crisis. Felicidad, back to you at the study.
AVELEYRA: Well Lourdes, it couldn't be clearer, and we have to act now... while some are waging a war.
