Climate strike

Climate change touches everything this newspaper reports on. It must be tackled urgently and clear-headedly
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Climate change is, though, a dire threat to countless people—one that is planetary in scope if not in its absolute stakes. It will displace tens of millions, at the very least; it will disrupt farms on which billions rely; it will dry up wells and water mains; it will flood low-lying places—and, as time goes by, higher-standing ones, too. True, it will also provide some opportunities, at least in the near term. But the longer humanity takes to curb emissions, the greater the dangers and sparser the benefits—and the larger the risk of some truly catastrophic surprises.

The scale of the implications underlines another thing that climate change is not. It is not just an environmental problem alongside all the others—and absolutely not one that can be solved by hair-shirt self-abnegation. Change by the people who are most alarmed will not be enough. What is also needed is change in the lives of those who do not yet much care. Climate is a matter for the whole of government. It cannot be shunted off to the minister for the environment whom nobody can name.

And that leads to a third thing that climate change is not. It is not a problem that can be put off for a few decades. It is here and now. It is already making extreme events like Hurricane Dorian more likely. Its losses are already there and often mourned—on drab landscapes where the glaciers have died and on reefs bleached of their coral colours. Delay means that mankind will suffer more harm and face a vastly more costly scramble to make up for lost time.

What to do is already well understood. And one vital task is capitalism’s speciality: making people better off. Adaptation, including sea defences, desalination plants, drought-resistant crops, will cost a lot of money. That is a particular problem for poor countries, which risk a vicious cycle where the impacts of climate change continuously rob them of the hope for development. International agreements stress the need to support the poorest countries in their efforts to adapt to climate change and to grow wealthy enough to need less help. Here the rich world is shirking its duties.

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The damage that climate change will end up doing depends on the human response over the next few decades. Many activists on the left cannot imagine today’s liberal democracies responding to the challenge on an adequate scale. They call for new limits to the pursuit of individual prosperity and sweeping government control over investment—strictures some of them would welcome under any circumstances. Meanwhile, on the right, some look away from the incipient disaster in an I’m-alright-Jack way and so ignore their duties to the bulk of humanity.

If the spirit of enterprise that first tapped the power of fossil fuels in the Industrial Revolution is to survive, the states in which it has most prospered must prove those attitudes wrong. They must be willing to transform the machinery of the world economy without giving up on the values out of which that economy was born. Some claim that capitalism’s love of growth inevitably pits it against a stable climate. This newspaper believes them wrong. But climate change could nonetheless be the death knell for economic freedom, along with much else. If capitalism is to hold its place, it must up its game.

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1. Nici nu v-ati ostenit sa cititi.
2. Chiar daca ati fi citit, n-ati fi inteles nimic. Fiindca aveti ochelarii de cal pe nas.

Din fericire viitorul arata bine. Nu ca trecutul. Trecut al caror exponenti sunteti.

In Germania Merkel a pus la bataie 55 de miliarde de euro pentru a combate emisiile de carbon

Evenimentul a inceput cand o tanara din Suedia in varsta de 16 ani pe nume Greta Thunberg a decis sa chiuleasca in fiecare vineri de la scoala pentru a protesta in fata parlamentului suedez.

Nici nu v-ati ostenit sa cititi.

Fiindca o asemenea transformare necesita eforturi uriase. Eforturi care pot fi realizate numai in mod colectiv.

Un eveniment global la care iau parte tineri din 156 de tari din lumea-ntreaga

O hipstereala atroce!

Dan Alexe 1 oră ·

Dacă până și "The Economist", biblia săptămânală a dreptei liberale și a mediilor de afaceri, lansează azi un surprinzător apel în favoarea unei mai mari justiții sociale și economice ca să combatem încălzirea planetară... Dar sectanții trumpiști au să strige și din ochiul ciclonului că încălzirea nu există.

Postarile voastre imi arata doua lucruri:

Din fericire viitorul arata bine. Nu ca trecutul. Trecut al caror exponenti sunteti.

un surprinzător apel în favoarea unei mai mari justiții sociale

Iti dai seama ca nici ea nu si-ar fi inchipuit, cand a inceput micutul ei protest, ca va ajunge sa fie un simbol global.

Nu vreau sa fiu ca-n documentaru' ala de pe Discovery; cu un 2050 in care o sugem prin ciorap big time de la mama natura.

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Ce vor acesti tineri? acesti copii? vor ca omenirea sa constientizeze un lucru simplu. Planeta se duce dracului.

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Dar ca exemple concrete-ti recomand sistemul de taxare scandinav.
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