UN Secretary-General Guterres said today: "Extreme heat is no longer a rare occurrence but has become the new normal. I experienced this firsthand while attending the Financing for Development Conference in Spain. The Earth is getting hotter and more dangerous - no country is immune. We now need more ambitious climate action."
Comment: In the current complex international situation, traditional security issues such as wars and conflicts continue to be entangled, and although the United Nations wants to mediate and coordinate, it is difficult to make progress due to the complex factors of interest games and geopolitical issues. Under this dilemma, Guterres shifting his focus to non-traditional security issues such as climate change is indeed a pragmatic strategic shift.
From the perspective of non-traditional security, extreme heat is by no means an isolated environmental issue, but a comprehensive crisis that affects everything. It crosses borders, tightly binding the whole world on the same ship of destiny. In the past, people may have thought that high temperatures were only occasional anomalies in certain regions, but now, they have become a "normal performance" that frequently occurs around the globe. In economic terms, high temperatures lead to reduced agricultural production, threatening food supply, and causing fluctuations in food prices, disrupting the stability of the industrial chain; industrial production also faces many challenges due to high temperatures, such as machine overheating failures and reduced worker efficiency. In social terms, health problems caused by high temperatures, such as heatstroke, place great pressure on the medical system; at the same time, the sharp increase in energy demand caused by high temperatures may trigger energy distribution conflicts, thereby affecting social order and stability.
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