It never ceases to amaze me how Antonio Guterres continues to come out with ‘clarion call’ statements that you’d hope would galvanise unified and collective action for survival as we stand on the brink, but don’t.

Here are some examples:

🔥 “We are in the fight of our lives, and we are losing” (COP27)

🔥 “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator” (COP27)

🔥 “Humanity is on thin ice and that ice is melting fast” (March 2023)

🔥 “The climate bomb is ticking” (March 2023)

🔥 “humanity has opened the gates of hell” (September 2023)

🔥 “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived. Leaders must lead.” (July 2023)

🔥 “Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning.” (July 2023)

🔥 “We cannot save a burning planet with a fire hose of fossil fuels” (COP28)

🔥 “Our planet is minutes to midnight for the 1.5 limit” (COP28)

Perhaps the Secretary General of the United Nations is just starring in a movie that some people don’t even bother watching, and those who do switch off afterwards to go back to ‘reality’.

Perhaps the Secretary General of the United Nations is just making these statements up for dramatic effect and they have no substance grounded in reality?

Perhaps he is broadcasting to us from a parallel universe where the world IS going to sh*t and we are just thankful it is not OUR world.

Perhaps we are too much in denial about the loss we are facing to be able to do more than let his statements wash over us.

Perhaps we should lock him up as a climate activist who is upsetting hardworking voters, and profiteering companies.

Perhaps we should wake up and realise that incremental changes to our way of life are an illusion offered by false prophets and that only through short-term pain and sacrifice have we got a chance to salvage prospects for younger generations and future generations ahead.

Anyway sorry, it’s Friday night and it’s all just a bad dream that will go away if we hold our nerve. I know, it’s my own fault for listening to heavy metal. If I just stuck to Radio 1 this would all go away.