Esa's Notebook

Climate change is a scientific fact. How it is handled is based – or at least should be based – on scientific evidence, but also on rational logic: the fact that I turn off the lights in my apartment will not affect climate change in any way.

Change is made by rational means. Not irrationally like throwing soup over paintings or sitting on the street blocking the passage of cars. It is not done by turning off the lights for an hour. The threat of nuclear war is not fought by floating candle lanterns in the river every August. The appearance of a crying child worried about climate change to the heads of state is not rational. These are all demonstrations, demonstrations that affect emotion. At most, they are important for attracting attention, but above all for calming one’s own mind: “I’ve done something about it”.

Influencing climate change by pursuing the Net Zero goal is not rational. As Konstantin Kisin shows in the video above, it would lead to a  catastrophic impoverishment and famine of developing countries. No one voluntarily wants to be impoverished or their children to die of malnutrition. We in developed countries in our warm apartments and a refrigerator full of food can demand such a thing. And right away – as Greta Thunberg insists. We can afford to build wind and solar power plants. But if Indians or the Chinese or residents of African countries were now asked, they would refuse the Net Zero option. And rightly so, yes.

So what’s impressive? As Konstantin Kisin says in the above videolink, there are three ways to “work, create something new, build.”  Mere rhetoric and demonstration of the mind will lead nowhere: By contrast, only work and the search for solutions, unbiased research and the creation of something new will take us ahead.