The culprits, once again
About twelve years ago, I read the book The Discovery of Global Warming, by scientist Spencer Weart, when this topic began to gain prominence in the conversations of some (some crazy, then, according to many). He convinced me, I passed it on to some friends. What led me to read this book was the situation of the Pyrenean glaciers: the mountaineers have been able to see how the glaciers of Aneto, Russell or Vignemale have been decreasing, decreasing and even disappearing year after year, without the need for sophisticated measuring instruments.
However, the last test to know for certain that climate change is taking place is an editorial from El País on August 9 of this year. In that editorial, the newspaper that represents the owners of this side of the world made us all responsible for climate change – yes, to yourself, reader; to me, to your colleague, who goes down the street … – “Once society has assumed that climate change is real, it has blamed the energy industry, the Amazon, predatory businessmen and other suspects … The other half is an individual responsibility, corresponding to each of the world’s inhabitants.” I understood the message: “The world is fucked unreservedly, yes, but the fault is not ours, the fault is yours.” If the owners of this part of the world begin to alienate their culps, it is a sign that there is something to alienate.
The capitalists of yesteryear said: we are insatiable. But am I primarily responsible for not knowing how many millions of tons of plastic that go out every year to the sea, if they offer me nothing but go to the supermarket and pick up a trolley full of plastic? The main culprit for CO2 emissions if advertising scrambles me to consume every minute? If in August they sell me oranges from South Africa? Apart from predatory businessmen and individuals, do politicians, lawmakers, have no responsibility for all of this?
Measures must be taken, of course, but nobody has shaved to take the necessary measures, because it is a radical change in our world and in our way of life.
At random, in this completely transformed world, there would be some option for the Catalans, the Basque country of Navarre and those who want a public network of fiber optics. Today, will anyone or something have it?
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