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Peter Jamin
NT2 teacher, translator, screenwriter and climate activist
Perhaps it should also make you think that the farmers are now receiving support from those who have also identified themselves as corona wappies
According to climate scientists, we are not prepared on the climate disasters that await us – and that is what they are concerned about. And not just them: I also shit my pants. And instead of doing something about the cause (er, reducing emissions), we let it happen to us. In the meantime we clean up pages for Hannah Ritchie he says everything will be fine. Because apparently that’s what we want to hear. But that is as if we wait for a vaccine during corona without taking emergency measures to prevent the spread of the virus.
The (technical) solutions that Ritchie advocates (the ‘vaccine’) will only work if we first get our emissions (the ‘virus’) under control. And during corona we have seen that people accept rigorous measures as long as the government clearly explains the need for them (“If we don’t do this, people will die.”). And yes, perspective helps (“If we just bite the bullet now, there may be a vaccine next year.”).
But perspective without emergency measures is not perspective but distraction or even deception. If we are in an emergency situation (and we are), we will have to call it that. But the government continues to pretend it business as usual is, and as if we can prepare for climate disruption. And yes, we will have to prepare, but in the meantime let us do everything we can to prevent the worst scenarios – warming of a few degrees. But instead, if there is a hint of headwind (the farmers’ protests), the first possible measures will be thrown off the table.
Let corona also be an example, because we all know how things turned out in countries where corona skeptics (Trump, Bolsonaro) were at the helm. Perhaps it should also make you think that farmers are now receiving support from those who have also identified themselves as corona wappies. Suppose we had listened to them back then…
We have already missed an opportunity to use the corona crisis to seriously make our economy more sustainable and fully green our energy supply; In any case, let us now put into practice the lessons we have learned from corona. That means calling the beast by its name (we are in the greatest planetary crisis humanity has ever experienced) and acting accordingly. And as long as the government continues to fail to do so, we will be hopelessly lost.
2024-02-08 20:14:31
#Lets #lessons #learned #corona #climate #Joop #BNNVARA
