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Rétablir la confiance des citoyens dans la lutte contre le changement climatique

Oct 27, 2021 Werner Hoyer

LUXEMBOURG – Le monde doit repenser la lutte contre le changement climatique. L’approche actuelle se révèle trop lente, et risque de nous faire manquer nos objectifs de limitation du réchauffement climatique et d’atténuation de son impact. Par ailleurs, insatisfaits des déclarations politiques, les citoyens exigent désormais des actes.

Ce mécontentement populaire s’observe dans le sondage sur le climat mené chaque année par la Banque européenne d’investissement. Pas moins de 75 % des citoyens de l’Union européenne, 69 % des Britanniques et 59 % des Américains estiment se sentir davantage préoccupés par l’urgence climatique que leurs gouvernements. De même, près de la moitié des répondants considère que la difficulté à résoudre la crise climatique s’explique principalement par l’inaction des gouvernements.

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Mark Ruscoe Oct 31, 2021

The title of the commentary is, "Restoring Citizens' Trust on Climate Change". It opens with an admonition that elected officials must respond better to public opinion.

Public opinion is a poor substitute for science. Public opinion is easily manipulatable into Group Think. Thus, even those who can't quite put their finger on how they've been misled lose faith in public officials. Much less those of us who understand the science, which does not call for alarmism.

The only sound way to "restore trust" is to follow the science...not the New York Times editorial page.
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Kurt Kristensen Oct 29, 2021

After living and working in Greenland, Alaska, New Zealand, Oregon and Tennessee, I have seen glaciers disappear and Arctic temperatures increase during January from -25 degrees F to +25 degrees F. Climate is indeed changing rapidly, and it may be almost completely due to the rapid global population increase from 3-4 billion to 7-9 billion, with attendant consumption habits, during the last 50 years.

In the mix of all the technological proposals from the last 20 years no one appear willing to engage global level politicians and decision makers in the very real possibility that, with a projected growth of the global population to over 12 billion by 2050/2100 no combination of technological intervention will be sufficient to even hold the impacts of growing consumption patterns attributed to the increase of 3-5 billion - most living in urban centers.

Already the migratory mass of humanity fleeing climate, economic or military disruption is massing close to one (1) billion people at the borders of the West.

Interventions might need to be energized at more basic levels; for example, micro-lending organizations such as kiva dot org allows ordinary people in the West to create perpetual loan balances available to people in under-developed countries who have the energy and vision to make entrepreneurial changes and investments 'at home.'

Relying on giant wind farms, nano-food factories, GM food and super-dense urban centers to solve the climate challenges may carry more unintended consequences than 'planners' have anticipated.

Common sense solutions would seem to suggest, for example, that smaller family farms growing healthy organic food products, and providing a living of more non-urban families, may produce a better net-sum benefit than relying on larger and larger feed lots, and endless mega-farms relying on mono-crops.
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Emanuel Müller Oct 27, 2021

That's the key, technological advances that will allow to reabsorb CO2 and turn it into gold bars will allow to fight both neutralize both climate change, inequality of income, net worth and opportunity.
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