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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington Environment editor

INSANE: Do not work for climate wreckers un head tells graduates | Vintage Vibes

Firefighter tackling a fire north-west of Santa Cruz, California
Firefighter tackling a fire north-west of Santa Cruz, California. Guterres told the US graduates that fossil fuels ‘are killing our planet’. Photograph: Shmuel Thler/AP

The UN secretary general has told new university graduates not to take up careers with the “climate wreckers” – companies that drive the extraction of fossil fuels.

António Guterres addressed thousands of graduates at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, US, on Tuesday. “You must be the generation that succeeds in addressing the planetary emergency of climate change,” he said. “Despite mountains of evidence of looming climate catastrophe, we still see mountains of funding for coal and fossil fuels that are killing our planet.

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