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Beginners – Giovanni De Mauro

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I lockdown last year, they helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel use by about 6 percent. Despite this, temperatures globally continued to be 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, therefore dangerously close to the internationally set limit of 1.5 degrees and beyond which even half a degree more is expected to increase significantly. the risk of droughts, floods, heat waves and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. But the situation is already complicated now.

A study released in Nature Climate Change, and based on data from 732 locations in 43 countries, calculated that more than a third of all heat deaths between 1991 and 2018 can be attributed to the human-induced climate crisis. .

Science journalist John Carey describes in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists the recent phenomenon whereby some intelligent people, usually white males, “parachute from above to explain the truth about fighting climate change to us mere mortals.”

Journalist Emily Atkin calls them the “first-time climate dudes”, Beginners convinced that they are great experts on climate issues. Among them are people like Bill Gates, who think that any attempt to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions is “a fairy tale”, writer Jonathan Franzen, who says we must “accept that disaster is coming”, and John Kerry, the Joe Biden’s climate correspondent says half of future emissions cuts will be the result of technologies not yet invented.

“In fact, we already have the tools we need to defeat the monster of the climate crisis,” writes Carey. These technologies are not only accessible already, but are improving and becoming cheaper at an astonishing rate. “In twenty or fifty years, humanity may look back and wonder why we ever thought it was so difficult, or so expensive, to get through the era of fossil fuels.”

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