A high-stakes UN summit in Canada seen as vital to saving the world’s biodiversity has failed to attract a single world leader beyond the host country’s prime minister Justin Trudeau. | AFP
“It is rapacious. It is cruel, it is destructive. And it does not work,” he added.
“We’re in now the Sixth Mass extinction,” he went on, “brought on by the stupidity and the unwillingness of human beings, mostly white human beings, to take responsibility for what they’ve created. What they have created is a goddamn mess!” Cromwell, who recalled his own activism from the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam war movements of the 1960s to recent arrests while campaigning for animal-rights issues , said it was “deplorable” that heads of state and government had snubbed the UN Biodiversity Conference, called COP15.
Cromwell was invited to attend by outspoken nonprofit Avaaz, which also gathered messages of support from other celebrities including Olivia Colman, Joaquin Phoenix and Jack Black. “Once we raise awareness, we raise also the pressure and accountability of governments,” said Oscar Soria of Avaaz. /
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