In recent years, there has been a focus on the climate of our planet, and more specifically, information in general has focused much more on ongoing climate change and lately on the concept of climate crisis.
Why we talk about the climate crisis: although the climate has undoubtedly undergone changes in the past and over the millions of years of our planet, the climate changes taking place today are part of a concept of crisis and risk for all living species on the planet, including us. Above all, because of the speed of change and the frequency and intensity of the events occurring.
Although to the Earth, as a whole, this may only entail a new period of transformation, the vast majority of living beings (and biodiversity) are, on the other hand, extremely sensitive to the 'slightest' changes.
A few degrees more may seem little, almost nothing. And yet we only need one degree more than our body temperature to call it a fever and to run for cover if it rises another one or two degrees. This is why scientists also attach particular importance to the half degree increase in temperature on a global scale: just as we get a fever and our body suffers an imbalance, so does the planet.
We speak of a climate crisis precisely because of the consequences we are already facing, and will increasingly face, if we do not act now on three main fields of action: adaptation, mitigation and restoration of optimal conditions (as far as possible and as long as it takes).
The climate crisis is also highlighting climate injustice, i.e. the inequality that is occurring and will occur between the various peoples and species on the planet, where some of them will suffer consequences without being the direct cause, since climate is global and has no borders.
It is a crisis because it affects various aspects of everyday life, including economic and social life.
Droughts, extreme weather events, migration of people due to adverse weather conditions, damage to crops and land, and health problems are just some of the consequences of the current projection of climate change, which could really change the Planet as we know it now forever.
The alarm of the scientific world, therefore, is not so much related to the change itself, but to the speed with which this is occurring and the intensity with which it is striking: it leaves us little room to adapt, to defend ourselves, and with us also the other living species that share this little blue dot in the middle of the universe. Living species on which, incidentally, we depend.
The word crisis, in fact, defines a choice when faced with a crossroads. In this case, we are talking about a climate crisis because we are faced with the choice of either taking a better, more evolved and sustainable path, or continuing in business as usual, i.e. as we have been doing until now and with the predictable results that are not exactly positive.
