Economic Boycott and Climate Change
Currently, one of the most controversial positions related to climate change, is the one referred to the statements that defend the economic sectors, when they express that there is no climate crisis on a global scale, by stating that it is only an infallible conspiracy designed by the People's Republic of China, in the search to boycott the economic growth of the rest of the developed countries.
This judgment, or rather economic discourse lacks scientific inferences, to support this conspiracy theory, however, for their part scientists from various latitudes have been warning for decades, that greenhouse gas emissions will cause serious consequences both environmental and public health, so if we analyze the economic discourse and scientific position, we will find that the warnings that scientists have been giving us, is the only visible and concrete reality in forest fires, cyclones, storms, typhoons, Arctic meltdown, contamination of water bodies, loss of biodiversity, and the appearance of pandemics associated with the detriment of wild niches, being the Covid-19 the most recent viral disease of rapid spread that has been linked to climate change.
Fig. 2 The conspiracy theories of the economic sectors about camb, lack scientific inferences. Image of public domain, Author: Viarami, 2020
Now, if today the Covid-19 is the main battle that we must fight, it is intuitive that we would be making a serious mistake if we do not include as a priority to combat the climate crisis as part of the strategy on the battlefield, because we will never address climate change in a serious way, this because, if we are certainly alarmed by the number of deaths that the Coronavirus has left and continues to generate, but we do not take measures in favor of the environment, consequently we would be assuming that this is false and conspiratorial news, and with this approach we will not succeed in stopping global warming, which will undoubtedly bring new and increasingly deadly pandemics.
Fig. 3 Climate change, and its impact with the emergence of respiratory diseases is an undeniable fact. Image of public domain, Author: Mohamed, 2019
Having said this, it is imperative that the States listen to the scientific positions, and leave aside the economic discourse, give priority to international cooperation to definitively promote policies that tend to diminish the constant and terrible environmental deterioration, since nature does not give any truce, and when it strikes it does so as a result of its biological imbalances, and not because of political-economic affinities.
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Hi @lupafilotaxia
As usual a good post with an interesting theme.
I particularly believe that even the response of the economic powers saying that everything is a plot by China becomes a show, to try to minimize the reality, and not to let it be seen that the world is being completely damaged, eliminating biodiversity and affecting everything.
While it is true that the covid could be a product of the global imbalance in relation to the climate, there are also theories that say that it was a virus manufactured by the Chinese and there are those who say that it was manufactured by the United States. In short, what I see is that there are interests basically in preserving the millionaires' money, regardless of whether the world ends or not. As absurd as it sounds.
Right @josevas217, unfortunately, smear campaigns prevail blaming each other (USA and China), but the truth is that this attitude is interpreted as actions to distract the population from the real environmental damage, because while people think that one of these two countries created the Covid-19, they relax and don't give importance to the environmental issue, because they assume that it is only a political-economic dispute, and deep down this is not so, since this kind of diseases have been occurring in an accelerated way since the dawn of modernity. Cordial greetings.