From Sea Boulevard you cannot see the “green ray”: that flash of magic that only those with a gentle heart can perceive when the sun goes out in the sea. On the banks of the Caspian other lights rise: the plumes of methane wells and walking along those 20 kilometers which celebrate the power of Baku there is a “scent” of crude oil. They went in Azerbaijan to announce for the twenty-ninth time the end of the world due to excess CO². They went there in their private jets to tell the tale of the boiled frog: humanity doesn’t know it, but the temperature rises, inexorably. And catastrophes will repeat themselves at increasingly shorter intervals.
The tones of Cop 29the climate change conference, were like those of Saviorthe Dolcinian friar who The name of the rose he obsessively recites the warning of the apostolic heresy: «Penitenziagite», do penance. However, it is hardly credible if those who say it are those who “lay around” at the Caspian Waterfront to enjoy caviar, sturgeon in yogurt sauce with the best Syrah in the world produced on the hills of Karabakh. It is one of the contradictions of Azerbaijan that Westerners should not pay attention to: wine in a Muslim country produced from a land where for decades there has been an uprising against the Armenians. And a value like coherence? What does he do to him: Baku it is a city that yearns for Europe and that’s enough. They built the Crystal Hall for the Eurovision song contest next to the carpet museum, and the Azerbaijani flag (there is a gigantic one at the end of Sea Boulevard) regularly flies in European competitions. Here they have a very precise idea of the Old Continent: it’s called “Eu-roba”. It’s luxury, it’s the highest concentration of Ferraris and Lamborghinis in the world, it’s the griffes that populate the boutiques on the boulevard. There Cop 29 she came here – and last year she was in Dubai – where the wells become deposits of money to look for sponsors to affirm that fossil fuels are the ruin of the world. It is the festival of hypocrisy elevated to global prophecy.
They were disappointed when they got off stage Ilham Aliyevpresident of Azerbaijan, said: «Oil and methane are gifts from God and production must be increased to save the world». They didn’t realize the magnitude of Baku is celebrated by the Flame Towers two gigantic flame-shaped skyscrapers that burn with millions of colorful displays. They don’t know that about twenty kilometers from Baku there is the Yanar Dag: the hill of fire that burns perpetually with three meter high flames fueled by an immense methane deposit. It is the sacred mountain of the Zoroastrians, the fire worshipers and here Zarathustra he has been venerated for a thousand years before Muhammad. They went to preach about extinguishing the world in the land where Ahura Mazda is still the highest deity: the creator with fire of the world. Result? There Cop 29 it was a failure. The ecologist mainstream was quick to say that the blame lies with Donald Trump which also a Baku it wasn’t there, like not even Joe Biden. It’s true that the new president said that the United States will exit the Paris Agreement, but he understood how things were going before anyone else Greta Thunberg: «I’m not coming to Baku because I don’t want to be an accomplice to this utmost hypocrisy.” Without the green ray and without the yellow raincoat, Cop 29 it’s like the fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen: now the world knows that “the King”, or perhaps it would be better to say the green dictator, is naked.
The so-called scientists ofIpccthe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have prophesied the imminent catastrophe they have shouted: we are already beyond the degree and a half of temperature rise that the Paris conference set as an insurmountable limit. The UN secretary Antonio Guterresfrom which theIpcc depends, but which does not have the resources to support it, urges the powerful of the world: a thousand billion are needed. The former secretary ofUN Ban Ki-moon and the secretary of Ipcc Christiana Figueres they wrote a letter that is an indictment: “Now there are more lobbyists here than scientists, the COPs are no longer able to pursue the purposes for which they were born.” An acknowledgment of failure which is however not painless. And not because the world will die from a bout of fever – even if catastrophists estimate the current victims of global warming at one hundred million – but because the specter of poverty is lengthening over Europe, the former driving force of development. TO Baku they didn’t show up either Xi Jinping nor Narendra Modi: China and India are the two main polluters. But the most disturbing absence for us is that of Ursula von der Leyen. She who forced Europe to suffer the Green dealwhich is putting the jobs of millions of Europeans at risk and which has confirmed the sanctions on car manufacturers until 2025 if they do not produce at least a third of electric cars which fewer and fewer people want to buy, the one who wants to pass on the price of the transition to the citizens with the green houses, with synthetic foods, did not show up.
Perhaps he understood what world finance has known for some time: Green has no future. 14 billion in ESG investments have already been withdrawn (green funds) have been abandoned by all the major operators and in the USA, in New Hampshire, there is a law proposal according to which it should be a crime to invest according to ESG criteria. In his appeal Guterres urged the G20 which took place in Rio de Janeiro where, calendar irony, the Cop 30to shell out the money for the green transition of the poorest countries. The answer is eloquent: from the final resolution of the summit of the major economies – those twenty nations are worth 80 percent of the world’s GDP – the generic term already signed in Dubai also disappeared, namely the commitment to “a just, orderly and from fossil fuels in energy systems”. The Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva a commitment tore him away: to put money to feed the world’s poor. An agreement he enthusiastically signed up to Giorgia Meloni. The green inspiration, despite Von der Leyen obliging Europe to join this phantom transition has weakened.
TO Baku and in Rio the flop of political and ecological correctness was celebrated. The reason? The professor explains it Alberto Prestinizi – former professor of applied geology at the Sapienza University of Rome – who signed the manifesto «There is not climate emergency» with 1,600 other scientists. He explained in a recent interview with Startmag: «The data analyzed shows that there is no climate emergency». The IPCC “reports” are signed by economists and not by scientists: that is politics and profiteering. In 1990, the 27 European countries contributed 8 percent of global emissions (Italy 0.8). Europe in 2021 produced 0.09 percent of the CO² content in the atmosphere. Everyone agrees that of the 420 parts per million of CO² present in the atmosphere, man is responsible for 120 parts per million. The 40 percent reduction in emissions imposed by the EU would have an impact of 0.036 percent on a global level, which compared to the quantity of CO² produced by man is equal to 43 parts per billion, a quantity that cannot be instrumentally measurable”.
TO Baku the Azerbaijani president of the COP, Mukhtar Babayevhe concluded dejectedly: «A climate agreement is impossible today». Developing states – China in the lead – are asking for 1,300 billion dollars a year in non-repayable funds for the green transition. As the European Energy Commissioner repeated, Wopke Hoekstra “It’s an unsustainable request, especially if Beijing doesn’t do its part and private individuals don’t get involved.” Europe is talking about climate taxes again, but the conditions and our Minister for the Environment are not there Gilberto Pichetto Fratin he said: «We limit ourselves to a political agreement». “The costs are skyrocketing for everyone” confessed the UN climate agency, the UNFCC, “they could rise to 340 billion per year in 2030, reaching 565 billion in 2050”. One suspects that he is right Prestinizi: pollution is deliberately exchanged for climate change to make money by leveraging fear. Europe should reread Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus spoke Zarathustra: «I beg you, brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe those who tell you of supernatural hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.”
