UN's Volker Turk warns of a dystopian future driven by conflict, disinformation, and climate change, urging global change.
UN's Volker Turk cautions the world against escalating conflicts, disinformation, and climate change, urging immediate action for a better future.
The UN rights chief warned Monday that the world needed to change paths to avoid a future filled with military escalation, repression, disinformation, deepening inequality and rampant climate change.“We can either continue on our current path — a treacherous ‘new normal’ — and sleepwalk into a dystopian future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the better, for humanity and the planet,” he said.
The world’s new normal, he said, “cannot be endless, vicious military escalation and increasingly horrifying, technologically advanced methods of warfare, control, and repression”. He warned against a “free-for-all spread of disinformation, smothering facts and the ability to make free and informed choices”.Turk also slammed “heated rhetoric and simplistic fixes, erasing context, nuance, and empathy. Paving the way for hate speech and the dire consequences that inevitably follow”.
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