President Obama
President Obama launched an attack on sexism, poverty and war during remarks at the United Nations, citing the pitfalls of mosquito bites and the need to address diseases in the lead-up to what’s being billed as “Super Monday,” the day some of the world’s biggest names in leadership meet for speeches at the global body.
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“Billions of our fellow human beings are at risk of dying from diseases that we know how to prevent,” Obama said Sunday, the New York Times reported. “Many children are just one mosquito bite away from death. And that is a moral outrage.”
DDT, one of the leading pesticides in the fight against mosquitoes and malaria, was banned by the United States in the 1940s due in part to environmental activist Rachel Carson’s book, “Silent Spring,” and her alarmist reports about chemicals. Since, much of her claims have been debunked by scientists. But DDT is still banned by most nations, leading to “a crushing economic burden on malaria-endemic countries,” as Forbes reported.
Obama didn’t address the DDT ban. But he did promise the U.N. audience an expansion of an HIV drug treatment program – albeit, he still needs congressional approval for funding – and a concerted effort to end povery, corruption, inequality, sexism, war and climate change.
“One of the best indicators of whether a country will succeed is how it treats its women,” he said, the New York Times reported. “And I have to say I do not have patience for the excuse of, ‘Well, we have our own ways of doing things.’”
He added: “We understand that there is as long tradition in every society of discriminating against women. But that’s not an excuse.”
His speech was at the tail end of the United Nations’ announced campaign to set new global development goals aimed at saving the entire world and called Agenda 2030. These sustainable development goals, as they’re called, were adopted Friday at the opening of the U.N. summit.
Obama is due to meet Russia President Vladimir Putin at the United Nations on Monday in what’s largely expected to be somewhat tense talks. The United States has reacted with anger to Putin’s recent arming of Syria’s government, and political insiders think the matter will come up during the pair’s rare U.N. meeting.
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