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Today, World Environment Day , it is time to remember that, whether we declare it or not, we are in the worst emergency that humanity has experienced since its inception, and that the first step to be able to consider doing something in an emergency is to recognize that exists.
The beginning of the end of human civilization has a date, 2050 , but we have been feeling it for a long time, no matter how many imbeciles insist on denying it. No, natural gas is not ” molecules of freedom ” nor a supposed path of transition , it is a fossil fuel and we must abandon its use, not make a transition towards it.
There is no conspiracy or plan: we talk about scientific evidence, not theories. The climate crisis affects our health , and will affect it even more as disease-transmitting species spread to new territories. The companies expect costs close to a billion dollars derived from disasters related to the climate emergency over the next five years, while many citizens intend to continue with their lives as if nothing were happening, as real protagonists of that metaphor of the frog in pot.
More than one billion people in forced migration due to the impossibility of living where they now live, and two billion more with problems of drinking water supply. Collapse of agriculture in the tropical and subtropical belt, which will cause a great shortage of food. Migrations and hunger: a scenario that nobody wants to live, but that practically nobody is doing anything to avoid. We said at the time: the IPCC report was a consensus report, and as such, obviated the most important feedback effects. As much as it seemed alarmist, it was, in fact, too optimistic.
There are solutions. The cost of renewable energy decreases more and more , they become an increasingly realistic alternative, and allow us to consider abandoning fossil fuels a few years ago, instead of several decades … but all countries are behind with about what they had committed themselves to do. Only one hundred companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions, and claim that we do nothing to avoid it. In several decades, everything we do will be completely useless. You have to act now. You can do things, but you have to start from the right information, spread it and marginalize the idiots and irresponsible people who are still looking for alternative explanations. Must generate a scenario of public opinion that reflects the true situation: we are in an emergency, and emergencies require exceptional responses.
We adjust our priorities. Never, in the whole history of man, has there been anything more important than this.
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This post was previously published on www.enriquedans.com and is republished here with permission from the author.
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