The Economic Development Advisor of the Government of Navarra, Manuel Ayerdi Olaizola, has just published in several Navarros newspapers the opinion article "Reducing the temperature of the planet is a priority". In it, it tells us about the unsustainability of our community's energy consumption and offers us a solution, almost magical, to the production of more renewable energy.

The counsellor disregards opposition to renewable projects on landscape issues or to sacrificial concerns such as biodiversity, as well as devaluing self-consumption, energy communities or energy generation close to consumption points. The author considers that the capture of wind and solar photovoltaic energy presented in Navarra by the private initiative requires a determined impulse in favor of the large polygons.

We are at a historic time marked by the climate emergency: energy sources must be changed, supply chains are not guaranteed on a planet where fossil and mineral fuels are depleted, and the dominant economic model that we have needs sustained growth in order not to enter into crisis. Given the great complexity, the counselor's recipe is "simple": Increase the number of solar and wind farms in Navarre and develop and implement the electrical energy storage systems they produce. And it's over. There are no more problems. And if they have any environmental impact, you just have to take it on.

It summarizes the article that Mr McMahon has just given. Ayerdi sent the written press of the weekend. Although this article contains some truths, they are not entirely true, as they do not describe the problems they cause. The Subai Erakuntza Foundation has tried and will present a report on the major challenges of a real transition to a world driven by renewable energies in the coming days.

The counselor has pointed out that we currently consume about 20% of renewable energy (which means that the remaining 80% is fossil), but has forgotten that only 20% of energy is consumed in electricity. And because renewables mostly produce electricity, to make that transition, it would be necessary to transform all sectors of the economy so that the electrical fluid would push. And because change is so big globally, those who are researching this transition process don't think it's possible if we want to get the same energy consumption that we have in the countries of the first world.

And this, whether you like it or not, is at the heart of the problem that Mr Ayerdi does not mention. The levels of energy consumption and raw materials that we make in Navarre from fossil fuels are unsustainable. But they are also supportive, as other territories impede the achievement of environmental objectives. And in the future it will not be possible to maintain renewable energies unless other changes are made: economic, social, agricultural model, mobility, leisure, consumption...

That is why the Green Capitalism that the counselor wants to sell to us in his article is not materially possible. And if you try to do so, it will have a great environmental impact, both in Navarre, by the expansion of the polygons of renewable energy capture, as in other countries, by the extraction of the raw materials necessary for its construction. It will not be able to cope with a global climate and ecological crisis, as the destruction of ecosystems here and there will aggravate it.

That is why we commend Mr Beumer's report. Ayerdi read the report to be published by Subai Erakuntza. Because we are convinced that it will open your eyes to the future and lead you to the transformations that have to be made. Complex problems are not solved with the simplistic answers proposed in your article.