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1) Yay for humanity! I'm amazed we were able to pull this one off, and who knows, maybe we haven't quite yet pulled it off. I've spent most of my life working in 3rd world shitholes and my sense of optimism for humanity as gradually sunk as a result. From human rights to solid waste to water pollution to economic development to meeting basic human needs for food - this species is a clusterfuck.

2) I'm not hugely impressed that the UN is running studies like this. They are better positioned as a political, not a scientific organization. I read:

The conclusion was made in the assessment published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

I'm hoping that means the WMO did the study and the UNEP oversaw it, or funded it, or something. Because the bureaucratic numbnuts at the UN don't belong in science and research.