Today is the big day of the global climate expert report which should tell us what actions to take to mitigate the effects of climate change. What to do to reverse the course. And it seems that there has been an important clash between scientists and governments on the long-standing issue of fossil fuels: when and how to stop oil, coal and gas. We will see what meeting point they will find when the report is published in the afternoon. What we should think about in the meantime is the tool used to tell the world what to do: a report of a few thousand pages, between attachments and appendices. Like Tolstoy’s War and Peace or Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. But written in scientific language.
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by Riccardo Luna
Who can reasonably read it all, apart from other scientists? It is true and it is right that science cannot be reduced to a tweet or a 100-second video for TikTok, but thousands of pages nowadays are too many for the good will of an inhabitant of the planet who wants to inquire directly. , without the mediation and synthesis that we journalists will make of it. Mind you, the report of thousands of pages is indispensable, because it is the result of the study of a community of scientists, but then you need someone who can communicate these things with clarity, simplicity and authenticity. It is not a formal question but a matter of substance.
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by Riccardo Luna
The slogans of Greta, who defines the rest of the world a “blablabla”, have served to mobilize a part of the world of youth but they already seem tired. To win “the greatest challenge humanity has ever fought”, instead, we need the conscious and active support of as many people as possible. And this is achieved only through information that is accessible and understandable to all.