Ukraine War Helps “Communicate Needs” [Climate] Sacrifice” – Frustrated with that?

Essay by Eric Worrall

According to the Washington Post, those who have accepted austerity to defeat Russian aggression are more likely to also accept “sleep colder in winter to fly less and pay more when you do“To fight climate change.

Fighting Putin against climate change

By Andreas Kluth | Bloomberg
Today at 3:05 a.m. EDT

On the day Russia launched its all-out assault on Ukraine, Svitlana Krakovska was in hiding in her hometown of Kyiv, working urgently to complete a report. As head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), she and scientists around the world studied and passed their sixth assessment of warming. world and its threats to humanity.

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However, the IPCC report was published a few days later. In normal times, these topics make headlines around the world. This book will set a record, because it is the dullest read in an already disastrous genre. Humanity, the suggestion is, may miss its goals of limiting global temperature rise and enter an age of natural disasters. But, of course, these are not normal times, and the message is muffled in a news cycle dominated by shoot and die.

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But even if we have the emergency under control, we must be prepared to get out of it. Well, now we can talk about a temporary discount on gasoline or heating oil for the poor. But our goal should be to get back as soon as possible, so that carbon gets progressively more expensive over time – through the cap and trade system etc – so that people get used to consuming less.

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The new reality is that we must move towards global electrification even faster, using 100% renewable energy with green hydrogen filling the gaps. Countries that have so far worked on building photovoltaics, wind farms, smart grids and other pieces of the puzzle must double as if life depended on it. It can do.

The only ray of hope is that Putin may have inadvertently simplified the politics of such a global mandate. Convince voters to ask convey the need for sacrifice – from sleeping colder in winter to flying less and paying more when you do. But now politicians can make that case in two ways – as needed to combat both Russian aggression and climate change. Those on the front lines of both struggles, like Svitlana Krakovska, remind us that they are equally urgent.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/fighting-putin- resultsbefore-climate-change/2022/03/28/1d1f89cc-ae5d-11ec-9dbd-0d4609d44c1c_story.html

Naturally, the proposed austerity measures would only apply to farmers. The climate elite will continue to enjoy life with taxpayer-funded trips to exotic holiday destinations, like this year’s “conference of the parties” in Sharm el-Sheik.