Enrique Santos Discépolo wrote the tango “Cambalache” in 1935, and in one of his verses he said in lunfardo: “That there in the oven we are going to find one another”, to talk about the climate, but social. But also in that area it is as if you had gone out this morning to feel the thickness of the Buenos Aires air, for example. The city of Baires is an oven and sometimes a lake. And the countryside, an open-air lagoon. Or a mountain of leaves and parched earth and anemic waterways. This is a bucolic vision. But the dark side is that the care and management of the climate and its course and influence, which is not just a phenomenon of nature, continues to be in the hands of madmen – of terminators – who consult the Excel of their profits on Wall Street. The worst drought in a century in Argentina cost 40 billion dollars and several points of increase in poverty. Not only did the lack of forecasts to face the droughts due to climate change that are already among us have an influence, but business is preferred no matter what. At the last minute, faced with the tragedy of the drought or the flood, they were unable to diversify crops or intervene in water courses. Nor have we promoted numerous training courses since 2019 or participated in international colloquiums, joining the countries that cry out against the greenhouse effect but detonate thousands of tons of bombs in the war in Ukraine, another true breadbasket of the world. Then, I also remembered the enormous lesson of the history of Jurassic Park and Terminator, two extraordinary classics of cinema that I would not dare to call science fiction – because human intervention defines that climate change is not a strictly technical issue but definitely a political one. in its essential design–: it is always about who or who appropriates the gigantic natural resources, generally international financial corporations, which go after the natural wealth of the countries that are indebted to the financial system, such as Argentina, or of still virgin territories, like in Africa. What’s more, one of the proposals of this system may at some point propose exchanging external debt for a commitment to caring for the climate, self-limiting economic activity that would allow them to stop predation. Only national states, and not all, can set limits on the voracity of corporations and that predation. Ownership of natural resources is what determines the course of climate change policies. The rise of the fascist right in the world is a barrier to the progress of the Paris Agreement and others, although limited, on the greenhouse effect and exploitation of water courses and desertification of the largest green lung on the planet, the Amazon. The arrival of Lula da Silva and the departure of Jair Bolsonaro from the presidency of Brazil improved the defense panorama of the Amazon, exploited by bandits. It is clear that anarcho-capitalism is the favorite doctrine of the chainsaws of the 21st century. Some right-wing political leaders, such as Donald Trump, Bolsonaro and Elon Musk’s newly invented the climate change agenda. In an interview conducted in 2021, the libertarian economist expressed his skepticism about global warming and blamed “socialism” and “cultural Marxism” for promoting policies related to this problem. During the interview with YouTuber Julián Serrano, Milei stated that climate change is “another of the lies of socialism” and accused scientists of deliberately manipulating their calculations, pointing out that predictions about the climate phenomenon have changed over time. . Additionally, he suggested that the simulations used in the research are designed to generate fear in the future. We’ll see if he doesn’t change his mind when the fields of Buenos Aires and Cordoba flood. The style of these anarcho-capitalist leaders, terminators for the style of democratic governments, is an enigma, and the course of their policies on this front as well. Because if we know anything, it is that these groups of new serial predators – sociocultural and environmental – cannot correct the course of their policies because they are betting on apocalyptic scenarios, where violence determines who wins: chaos is their best ally. Lithium, oil, gas, gold, silver, uranium, grains, the chemical industry that cures them, etc., cannot be discontinued. Remember Jurassic Park: Nature, of course, does not always have the chance to beat the silent bull of Wall Street before a catastrophe. That is our tragedy: that climate management depends on the terminators of the 21st century.
