Climate change is an undeniable reality. In fact, the climate has always been changing, sometimes hotter, sometimes colder, for tens of thousands of years or even longer, and it has never stopped changing. Today, humans have only come to recognize this through political fashion. We cannot stay stuck in the past, but it seems the younger generation truly believes that climate change can be stopped.
The climate change movement is a religion, a political correctness, a belief, and even a political movement. The outcome is similar to the Greenpeace movement. This process is a timely occasion, creating a stage for countless professionals, allowing people to recognize their faces and hear their voices. They are skilled at persuading politicians looking for opportunities, young people eager to mature, financial speculators seeking investment, people in the fashion industry pursuing concepts, writers of fiction, university professors eager for funding, and of course, preachers who always need followers.
I do not completely deny this political movement, just as the almost forgotten Greenpeace movement once contributed to the sense of respecting nature. What I deny is the political correctness and the political movement itself because I am a serious thinker who habitually traces the essence of things more carefully.
Regarding climate change, I do see some disturbing logic. When climate change becomes a political movement, it brings enormous costs, which affect inflation and subsequently alter politics. I notice that the reality is like being in a theater with high temperatures, where people are focused on watching the play but few realize they are already sweating profusely. Indeed, very few people are paying attention to the logical relationship behind climate change.
The COP29 meeting in Baku provided USD 300 billion. California has banned trains running on fuel or gas through its territory. China, the U.S., and other countries are encouraging the development of electric vehicles, providing staggering subsidies. Of course, there are other large amounts of funding from countries around the world, perhaps reaching trillions annually. All of this has led to a shocking increase in product costs. A new car that used to cost USD 25,000 is now sold for USD 30,000. Climate change has become the best excuse for price hikes, and the widespread price increase transforms into inflation, which then leads to faster-growing taxes until anger prevails among the public.
No one notices that "increase" can never help "reduce”.
Under the name of climate change, the abandonment and elimination of equipment have only led to a larger-scale production and consumption of resources. Humanity continues to "increase" consumption today under the pretext of "reducing" for the future. The only people who may feel optimistic about this are likely from Wall Street.
I have been to the Arctic, standing on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. I have crossed all four of China’s great deserts and visited the Sahara. I know that the Mediterranean no longer has fish, and I have seen the retreat of the Himalayan glaciers. I understand the horrors of climate change. My doubt about climate change is simply whether we are helping the wrong targets. Should we not be helping people directly affected by climate change, such as those struggling in floods or having their homes torn apart by hurricanes, rather than focusing on the Earth and the universe?
I have an unscientific guess: Climate change brings too much uncertainty to humanity, and the nonsense built on this uncertainty has become too much. Now is the time to act rationally on the only certain foundation, that is saving and efficiency.
