Italy in the grip of climate change, government denial and good news for the Amazon [podcast]

The era of global warming is over and "the era of global boiling has arrived", according to the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres.“Climate change is here.It's terrifying.And it's just the beginning," Guterres said.“It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C [compared to pre-industrial levels] and avoid the worst of climate change.But only with immediate climate action."

Guterres' words came after climate scientists confirmed that the last three weeks have been the warmest since recorded and that July is on track to be the warmest month on record.

The extreme meteorological phenomena that are affecting the entire Mediterranean, increasingly hotter, fires and what we are not doing to prevent them.If we needed further manifestations of the effects of the climate crisis, we are experiencing them first-hand. At all latitudes, from the far west to Japan.Yet, just a few days ago the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, he spoke of "difficult bad weather" and "unpredictable climatic reality" referring to the extreme meteorological events in Sicily and Lombardy.The Minister of the Environment Pichetto Fratin, guest of the Sky Tg 24 lounge, even questioned the anthropic origin of climate change.

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In the media, there are still those who sow doubts, belittle and pollute the public debate:“It's summer!It's hot."The bass drum of climate denialism she didn't stop not even this time.Even the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, he said he was surprised of the "many discussions on the validity of the risks, on the level of alarm, on the degree of concern" also in the face of "the dramatic images of what happened, in the North as well as in the Center and in the South".In short, we are faced with a real manipulation of the facts, with very serious propagandistic and unscrupulous misinformation.

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Meanwhile, the energy companies they are reducing investments in renewable energy and expanding oil and gas production while the G20 countries, meeting in Goa, India, they did not reach an agreement on the reduction of fossil fuels.The underlying question after everything that is happening is:Why are we still so tragically off track in fighting this crisis?

Fires, torrential rains and heat waves:“It's not the Mediterranean summer.It's climate change."

Luckily there is some good news.The new governments of Brazil And Colombia they are slowing down the deforestation of the Amazon.In particular, the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, is trying a new approach by associating the peace process with armed groups with the environmental issue.

We talked about all this in “Che clima che fa”, the podcast by Blue suitcase dedicated to the climate crisis.

Music:Michael Jackson - Earth Song

Direction: Vaudio

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