We’ve turned on science, but we’re not starving

Frankly, we’re starting to get a little confused by the leadership’s obsession with talking about extremists before talking to us. Or the superhero solution to constant criticism: Often times, it boils down to going to study. Here is an almost stern interrogation of our claims: Finally, let those who have never exchanged energy for electricity throw the first stone.

“Someone asked them how they intend to achieve this ambition – after seven years?” Yes, Joanna, indeed, children and students have been frequently asked for instructions on how to solve the problem. The greatest calamity that befell humanityClimate crisis, a detail not mentioned in the text “They Should Study”.

But rest assured, because none of these instructions mean, as the journalist suggests, a return to pulling gigs. We, the generation of best-in-class smartphones, which – for their convenience – have devoted themselves to Instagram offers, discovered, somewhere on the net (see jobs-clima.pt) that such “workable solutions” already exist. On the same day, We found out: “Boring Conversations” is going to be full of climactic hell.

The following is. If we’re not talking about cutting emissions, this isn’t a climate conversation. If we are not talking about the year 2030, we are not talking about the same crisis (the one that we, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, are aware of with promises to become irreversible in that year). It’s not a question of “miracle results,” but of carbon in the atmosphere, stopping those injecting it, and dismantling the energy dependence of the fossil industry. Along the way (this), Joanna (instead of just watching), we can even lower the electric bill for those trying to put food on the table.

Talking about fossils is talking about energy. We use it in industrial machinery, car engines, heating and electricity. In recent actions, we have only focused on the first step: decarbonizing electricity, less than 30% of our energy sector. This plan is undoubtedly until 2025.

The goal for 2030, yes, is to decarbonize the entire energy sector in Portugal. It is not trivial, it means urgently starting to comply with the flag, the slogan of the latest hunger strike that has been equally ignored by institutions and society. How many of these reports do we need to stop waiting for political or technological miracles?

Joanna, we worry about the same thing: Sectors like industry and transportation, still face enormous challenges and dependence on fossil fuels, and that inaction is even more serious. Or the massive impact of destroying renewables when fueling alienated consumption and endless growth let Galp and EDP take center stage.

They program the digital world, huge advertising spending, annual replacement of electronic devices – and do we blame the consumer? They talk about solar panel monocultures in the Alentejo Littoral, while there are empty roofs and enough sun for everyone – and will this cost-of-living crisis be minimally acceptable?

We need public investment, not in this logic, but in a just, national transitional system, to combat instability by creating decent jobs that make this plan a reality. We need an energy efficient (and therefore) carbon-neutral transport network. Not all that is possible, of course, if the plan is the government’s: a carbon neutrality roadmap that makes no mention of public transport.

Ignoring this, Portugal’s only climatologically compatible fair transition plan, ignores the basis of all the lectures, pamphlets and claims issued by Al-Shabaab that it so criticizes.

Radical aligns with an environment and climate action minister who doesn’t know how to accelerate an energy transition that he’s not even doing, while he’s part of a political jigsaw of new gas pipelines, airports and a bailout of oil companies’ profits. The ride is accelerating every year, and the distance to emergency braking is getting worse and worse.

Mass pressure is necessary, normality is an obstacle, occupation is our tactic. In a crisis that kills and is ignored, when it takes too much to condemn inaction, to paralyze the faculties is the least pleas for help; The blocking of the LNG terminal in the port of Sens, is nothing more than self-defense; Far beyond “comfortable existence”.

By the way – and finally – we don’t see much comfort in not being able to leave our parental home, save money, or find a home or a job. I do not see the youth in not seeing two feet of the future in the future. I run a university among fading social canteens, student spaces on the verge of extinction, and mental health declining in the performance of authority, meritocracy, harassment and competition that some call the education system; echo:

It was then, as I sat on the floor, that I realized the power of non-cooperation. Now I know what politics is.