Category CLIMATE CHANGE

Arturo Criado interviewed me for El Español a few days ago talking about my book, «Living in the future«, and today he publishes the interview taking advantage of the arrival of the climate activist Greta Thunberg, placing quotation marks on one of my phrases about it, «Greta Thunberg is a symbol , if it works it does not matter if it is mediated or if it is extravagant.

We are all super concerned about the Amazon, right? I'll explain the problem and why the best thing you can do is stop eating meat. We are all offended and upset with Jair Bolsonaro and with the Brazilians who voted for him, right? But the speech and the bellowing in social networks, so that they see us, does not have much impact in real life.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, together with a group of European adolescents and young people, is calling for a global strike for this September 20 with the purpose of drawing the attention of politicians so that immediate and effective measures are taken to face climate change.

According to new research, it will be very difficult to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to stop global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, the threshold at which catastrophic climate change is most likely, according to a new paper published in Nature, if the Earth heats up by more than 1.

The United Nations has warned that climate catastrophes are occurring at a rate of one each week, although most attract little international attention and urgent work is needed to prepare developing countries for the profound impacts. Disasters like Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique and India's drought are making headlines around the world.

Depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and substance abuse are all mental health crises that tend to arise after a natural disaster. And as climate change becomes more prevalent, these problems increase. Climate change and mental health "During disasters there have been some increases in suicide attempts in affected communities," says Ashlee Cunsolo, a health geographer.

Last June was the hottest month on record, the European Union satellite agency announced. Data provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Center for Weather Forecasts of Medium Range on behalf of the EU, showed that the global average temperature for June 2019 was the highest recorded in the month.

We can affirm, without a doubt, that the earth has its natural climatic cycles and that before human beings existed there were already climatic changes. In fact, the Earth has gone through 5 mass extinctions and all of them have been consequences of changes in the atmosphere in which humans did not have any type of impact, simply because we did not exist.