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“The original proposal to halve pesticides in the European Union by the end of the decade has become a symbol of polarization.”The words of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, summarize the climate/food blackmail in which the European Union finds itself entangled and manifests, unconsciously, the surrender and all the ineptitude of a ruling class incapable of implementing a model of development and sustenance different from that on which the planet has been based so far. “No farm, no food”, “Our end will mean your hunger”, we read on the banners carried by breeders and farmers practically all over Europe.Not only in Germany, in France, in the Netherlands.The protests spread to Spain, Greece, Romania, Lithuania, Poland and even Italy, with tractors wanting to go up to the Sanremo stage to take part, too, in the total social event that enchants our world every February. country and our discussions. For now, after the meeting with Minister Lollobrigida a...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. While world leaders were gathered for the United Nations General Assembly and the subsequent “climate ambition summit”, over 70 thousand climate activists they filled the streets of New York on Sunday 17 September, to ask the President of the United States, Joe Biden, to stop the approval of new fossil fuel projects.The demonstration was supported by more than 700 global climate organizations who participated in protests in numerous other countries. “Thousands of people around the world are returning to the streets to demand that we stop what is killing us.We need to think about who will be living on our planet in 30, 40, 50 years.And negative responses are not contemplated,” he said Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the rally. Among the participants was 8-year-old Athena Wilson of Boca Raton, Florida.She and her mother Maleah flew from Florida to New York.We...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “Beyond imagination”, “Farcical”, “Lies”, “When you put Count Dracula in charge of the Blood Bank…”.The statements made public by COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber have sparked a wave of global disapproval Guardian and from Center for Climate Reporting last Sunday. Two weeks ago during an online meeting, moderated by Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland, now an important supporter of the ecological transition, Al Jaber - who, in addition to the United Nations Climate Conference underway in Dubai, is also head of Adnoc, the national oil company of the United Arab Emirates, and Masdar, the state renewable energy company – he stated [min.4] that there is no scientific evidence to demonstrate that phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and that phasing out fossil fuels would not allow for a sustainable development unless...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The climate crisis is a fact, as is yours anthropic origin:The relationship of the 2021 IPCC showed that the increase in temperature compared to the pre-industrial age, thanks to empirical research and numerical simulations, depends mostly on human activity. Yet still today, in one mixture of ignorance and bad faith, there is no shortage of inroads in public opinion and politics to discredit the efforts of scientists, activists and a part of the ruling class who are pushing for an ecological transition, both from a legislative point of view and from the point of view of electoral consensus.One of the arguments used in Italy and abroad by the conjunction of climate deniers and inactivists is the one according to which the climate transition it would be ridden from the left to impose dirigiste and statist policies, motivated more by hatred for the free market than by science. The sca...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. In recent days the Sultan, Al Jaber, head of the next United Nations Climate Conference, COP28, which will be held from 30 November to 12 December in Dubai, organized two days of pre-COP talks in Abu Dhabi.Many have defined them crucial.Why? Because these conversations came in a very particular context:after a summer characterized by prolonged heat waves, droughts, storms, floods;during the war between Israel and Hamas;following the publication of a series of studies and analyzes on the state of the melting of glaciers, on the trend of CO2 emissions, on deforestation, on global warming which are in some ways disheartening. A recent study on Nature found that extreme heat waves in Western Europe increased faster than the 170 climate simulations analyzed by the research expected.Extreme weather events follow one another non-stop, we know what we have to do, yet there is still a strong re...