Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed the United Nations on Monday, cautioning world leaders not to embrace new coal or natural gas imports for the short-term economic advantage of easing cost of living for citizens to the detriment of environmental considerations, warning about the purportedly imminent dangers of climate change as forecast by the IPCC’s predictive models. “Countries could become so consumed by the immediate fossil fuel supply gap that they neglect or knee-cap policies to cut fossil fuel use,” Guterres said in a pre-recorded address to the U.N. Economic Sustainability Summit, featuring representatives from major industrialized nations of the world. The Russian invasion of Ukraine last month has sent shockwaves throughout the fossil fuel industry, as Eastern European supply lines have been disrupted and NATO-led sanctions have deprived the world of Russia’s fossil fuel exports. Meanwhile, the world economy has scrambled to find alternatives to Russian fossil fuels, blunting the impact …