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"You’ll die of old age, I’ll die of climate change"
image credit: From the Sicilian newspaper www.lasicilia.it
On the C40 Blog of Mark Watts at c40.org I read what the young generation says: “You’ll die of old age, I’ll die of climate change”.
After many weeks of (summer) silence I raise my voice again, also because I was stunned by the climate headlines of this (nearly) gone summer. I was in August on Mount Etna on fire-tortured Sicily and saw helicopters with water hurrying low over our house towards Nicolosi, where there was a fire, too. I know it's a big issue in the US, too.
Another headline from Germany (https://energyeducation.se/germany-near-blackout) about a near blackout on Aug, 14 surprised me and showed how we humans are squeezed between our dependence on energy and the climate disasters, of which a totally serene region of Germany was deeply affected two weeks earlier.
This morning I was listening to an audiobook “The Optimist’s Telescope” of Bina Venkataraman (she is Editorial Page Editor at The Boston Globe) about human’s ability to let our future have a weight on our decisions today rather than only thinking on short term. So we have the potential of the way out of this mess.
The following generations will see, experience and … judge our management of this potential.
My potential to influence the outcome is very limited. I try to work and communicate in the undercovered area of Energy Management in Industry and other large consumers, that's why I am in this group of Energy Efficiency at EnergyCentral. A strong statement from this domain is that each not consumed energy unit is as clean as Renewable Energy. As important to note is that it has often an excellent return on investment.
Let’s all invest in a good future!
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