Is there to play on words by calling oneself climatosceptic and climato-hypocrite when the announcements of scientists relating to climate change warn of the urgency of changing gear in environmental matters if we want to save the planet?! … Our leaders and would-be leaders sometimes seem to prefer to act in areas that give immediate tangible results than in ecology, with longer-term positive returns.
The IPCC warns
On Monday April 4, 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the third part of its sixth report on climate change, devoted to assessing ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse which continue to increase.
To keep global warming below 2°C, these emissions must peak in three years, but for that we must take action immediately, which implies “rapid, deep and mostly immediate greenhouse gas reductions in all sectors”, but the policies of the States are extremely insufficient. For example, experts believe that, in order to comply with the Paris agreement, the funding earmarked until 2030 should be “three to six times higher than current levels”.
But, we are talking about objectives for 2030, 2050…apart from projections and individual electoral prospects…
The summer of 2021 has been the hottest on record
Friday, April 22, 2022, the European service Copernicus climate change monitoring published its Report on the state of the climate in Europe in 2021. Since 1950 that the data is collected, it appears that in 2021, Europe experienced the hottest summer on record.
2021 did not rank among the ten hottest years, but the waves of recurrent droughts, intense heat, heat waves, devastating fires, tragic floods and episodes of late frost have still mistreated the planet and its environment. global temperature: at the sea surface, temperatures have been the highest for twenty years in areas of the Mediterranean Sea and the Baltic Sea.
The debates of the presidential campaign should have given pride of place to the measures to be taken in the face of the climate emergency, but the appointment is missed. Now that Emmanuel Macron is re-elected for a second and final mandate, let’s hope that the actions will be there, despite everything, in the weeks, months and 5 years of the mandate to come, because eco-anxiety is gaining ground among young people and it would be desirable to help them rebuild a more livable world by supporting citizens’ initiatives. As agricultural engineer Didier Helmstetter writes in his book The sloth’s vegetable garden hit by climate change*, understanding what is happening on a global scale helps to act in your vegetable garden! The author makes a precise diagnosis of the consequences of global warming on his vegetable garden, and he concludes that, without a doubt, the climate is warming up, and that it would be better to think today about our way of gardening, which has no choice but to evolve.
* Tana Editions – April 14, 2022 – 448 pages – €18.90
Written by Nathalie on 04/25/2022