- I specifically named the column this way, first, to anticipate possible comments, and secondly, not to return to the question. Overton's window along with Occam's razor is the Rockefeller and Rothschild of contemporary sofa discourse. Concepts grasped, greasy and zamylennye to such an extent that as soon as you see their use — so you want to immediately stop any discussion. For nothing.
- Because in the story of the Swedish Professor who proposed to eat people in order to feed humanity, the most interesting thing is not in the breadth of the discussion. There can be no framework in scientific and natural discussions. And if such a framework existed, humanity would not have nuclear weapons. However, maybe someone thinks that it would be good. Okay.
Okay, let's add context. So, Professor of the Stockholm higher school of Economics Magnus Soderlund, speaking on Swedish television as a guest expert on the food of the future, said that the use of human meat in food will help fight the effects of global climate change. Because cows and pigs produce too much methane, and they require too much land and water to feed. Well, then-you know. No, the Professor does not call for living people to eat, God forbid! But now dead — why not? All the more that for their landfills, again same, requires too many land.
On a question: "and you, Professor, will eat people?"- Professor responded, that open to proposals.
And until Professor Greta Thunberg's compatriot has spoken on the issue (and one of the journalists must ask her what she thinks about it), let's try to abstract from the framework of discussions, from the discussions themselves, from the Swedish cultural model as such, and turn to our plebeian sources. For example, Wikipedia.
So Wikipedia says that our planet is four and a half billion years old. Life on this planet exists a little less, but also more than four billion years. According to various estimates, the conditions for the existence of living beings (not necessarily people) will remain on Earth for another half a billion to more than two billion years. Remember this order — we are talking about time intervals with nine zeros at the end.
Now man. Homo sapiens as a species exists only 200 thousand years. Modern man-less than 50 thousand years. The documented history of mankind (the one that we can judge from the sources) is about 8 thousand years. Well, actually anthropogenic impact on nature is that way 200 years. Out of four and a half billion. I would, of course, divide a number with nine zeros by a number with two zeros, and even by a number with four zeros. But you understand that as a result of zeros will still be so much that to talk about the impact of humanity on the planet is ridiculous.
This planet existed billions of years before us and will exist billions of years after us. And they won't even remember us 100 years after we disappear.
- Now about global warming. Here is a fragment of the Preface to the book of K. S. Badigin "Three wintering in the Arctic ice", published-attention! in 1950.
- "Since 1920, an interesting phenomenon has been observed in the Arctic — its warming. This warming is not gradual. Years colder are replaced by warmer, more Arctic navigation-less Arctic. But in General, the Arctic is getting warmer and warmer.
- First of all, a decrease in the size of glaciers was observed. This decrease in recent years in the Arctic is widespread. In the land of Franz Josef, some Islands melted away, and others split in two, and new Straits opened between them, whereas formerly these Islands were connected by icy isthmuses. In the Laptev sea, some Islands, almost entirely composed of fossil ice, are now dramatically reduced in size...
- It is remarkable that the increase in air temperature has been observed in recent years not only in the Arctic, but also in areas quite remote from it. Muscovites are so used to the long autumn and warm winters that they already consider this phenomenon as normal. Comparisons show that our rivers freeze later and open earlier...
- The warming influence exerted by Atlantic waters on the climate of the Arctic and Europe is proved. Regular observations show that under each square centimeter of the surface of the Atlantic waters entering the Barents and Greenland seas, now as it were "hidden" by 15 kilograms-calories of heat more than it was at the beginning of this century. This heat still continues to accumulate, reducing the iciness of our seas and softening winter temperatures."
- Once again: it was written in 1950. And data on warming began to accumulate during the first ice drifts, in the 1920s and 1930s, when the anthropogenic impact on nature was incomparably less than now.
- That is, everything goes as it goes. The planet lives by its own laws and rules, and humanity has absolutely nothing to do with it. But humanity has invented a fight for the planet (which is all good) and is ready for this fight for everything. No, I don't mind at all if the Swedes eat the corpses of their own relatives. And it is not against Americans to follow the call of their Church of euthanasia: Save the Planet, Kill Yourself. We, as they say, will get more.
- Because, of course, we are not going to participate in all these discussions.
- Because global warming is making us feel better.