We are the ones who are crazy, not the weather

Dear Luigi,
let’s not get confused. The phenomenon of deaths at work is absolutely not related to the so-called “climate change”, but it depends on the failure to comply with the regulations, which are not absent or lacking, relating to the prevention of risk at work as well as the lack of adequate controls, which are carried out in a patchy manner. There is also a tendency to underestimate the danger, to be careless, an error that frequently costs one’s own life or that of others. Another clarification: deaths from floods in Italy have increased, you write. But are these tragic accidents actually due to the climate or rather to the superficiality of those who perhaps go for a picnic on the bed of a stream in adverse conditions? Deaths from heat have always existed, as have those from cold. I remind you that every winter we count the victims. Nature can kill. Volcanic explosions, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, excessive heat, excessive cold, are natural events that have always occurred in every part of the globe, that is, for millions and millions of centuries, since man’s action had not affected the ecosystem in the slightest. However, nowadays it happens that, if it rains, it is because of climate change, if it does not rain, ditto; if it is cold, same thing, if it is hot, equally. For months we have complained about the lack of rain, or drought, now we complain because it has been raining for days and summer is struggling to arrive, at least in the North, where, even though we have now reached the gates of July, we go out with heavy jackets, boots, sweatshirts, and coats. And yet self-styled experts tell us that this year we have recorded the hottest May in history. But where? How? When? In Lombardy we still had duvets on the bed. And around here, even today, it seems more like autumn than summer. But I already know that ecologists would respond to these banal observations of mine by saying that the bad weather is due to global warming as well as dryness and heat. In short, we have no escape: it is always climate change’s fault. And if May was defined as “the hottest in history”, today we read in the newspapers that June is the coldest month of the last twenty-five years and that it is likely that in the months of July and August we will break the record for the most suffocating summer ever. And they insist with alarmist tones in predicting a sort of atmospheric apocalypse. Sometimes I have a doubt: is it the climate that has gone crazy or are we? Once it was normal for people to suffer from the heat in the good season and to suffer from the cold in the bad season. We uncovered ourselves or covered ourselves. We didn’t have air conditioning or heating, and yet we didn’t bother them that much, as human beings accepted the changeability and cyclicality of nature and lived by adapting to it. Our ideological obsession with the climate arises from our inability to accept that we cannot control nature, it is in fact unpredictable. I do not deny that we must and can do more to improve the quality of the air, to not dirty the seas, to not pollute the earth, but I reject this environmentalist fever now pushed to excesses which leads to equally extreme and even violent acts, such as the use of defacing works of art, buildings and public monuments as a sign of protest and in favor of the climate.

Greta Thunberg is not a prophet, she is not a Nobel Prize winner, she is not even a graduate and specialized in the subjects she has been preaching and discussing since she was a pre-teen and a lazy student, and yet in our madness we have elevated her above those esteemed scientists who have explained to us and continue to explain to us that the climate has always changed, regardless of human action. We are only willing to accept the opinion and theses of those who validate and confirm that the end of the world is upon us. And that we went looking for it.