When meteorological phenomena occur as extreme as the DANA that last week will especially hit the Valencian Countryhe changing the climate and the need to face it – it comes back to the foreground of the political and media agenda. Now, usually this effect is carried out at the end of one week or, at all times, a few months, it is felt that political responses are necessary at half and long term in the vagina aligned with the adaptation to the climate emergency. The question is whether this is repeated after a storm that has caused hundreds of deaths or whether this has seen a turning point.
At the outset, I must underline that the negationist discourses propagated in good part by the extreme right exist a notable city consensus on the seriousness and importance of climate change. Així, per example, l’Generalitat Bus surveypublished last week by the Center d’Estudis d’Opinió (CEO), shows how Catalans consider that Climate change is the “main problem of the world in 10 years”. In concrete terms, it accumulates 28% of responses, clearly ahead of 19% of the second option, which is the poor one, the inequalities and the social problems. The volume is clearly higher among the voters of the CUP, Comuns, ERC, fins i tot, Junts.
According to 28% of Catalans, climate change will be the “main problem of the world” in 10 years
Paral·lelament, according to the Climate Barometer of Catalonia. 2023Also reported by the CEO, 86% of Catalans are convinced that the planet’s climate is changing due to the climate crisis, while 69% believe that the consequences of climate change “will be very negative”17% go further and think that “humanity will far disappear” and only 2% believe that “it will not happen.” Now, bad luck with the forcefulness of these facts, the elections to the Parliament on May 12th are going to suppose a strong step back from the formations with clearer measures to face the climate change, with ERC, Comuns and the CUP and, in canvi, a million of PSC, Junts i PP, parties that do not question the current socioeconomic model.
The distance between concern for the climate and the vote
When it comes to explaining this, the energy and climate researcherDeute Observatory in Globalization (ODG) Alfons Perez points out that ““One thing is to recognize that there is a global problem and another thing is to analyze the concrete measures.”. I hereby feel that we have “a welfare society that is largely based on a socioeconomic model that causes” climate change, which in part explains the vote tria.
Eva Vilaseca: “The climate change last year was a very big thing, but sometimes it was a rainy day”
For the biologist specialized in Ecology and Social Economy and Solidarity Eva Vilaseca “hi ha moltes capes” that can explain this electoral behavior and one is that “The climate change is something very big, but sometimes it’s a rainy day and it doesn’t affect everyday life.unless there are events such as the dryer, a DANA or a big fire.” Vilaseca, who is also a member of theCatalan Assembly for the Ecosocial TransitionHe adds that “the problem is that there are no real political proposals or guarantees given by the climate crisis.”
According to her, the climate change “is not polititzat, they have buidat de contingut”since we accumulate decades during which “they have been transferred to a very politically correct sphere that does not challenge many economic and political powers.” Amb tot, Vilaseca points out that “it is certain that moments of crisis” like this, which aspire to more in the future, “can politicize more the climate situation” and bring to light “discomforts that already exist.”
Organization to influence
Now, because it has had an impact at the political and electoral level, Vilaseca considers it necessary to “make social movements and organizations” that can profit from these “moments of crisis and sensitivity” to “put pressure on the institutions.” “People are sensitive, but that ecologism estigui organizations and can influence the storyto be clear about who our proposals are and to organize our responses to be able to have an impact,” she details. Amb tot, she regrets that for her “ara mateix no hi ha cap partit guanyador que estigui a l’alçada del that demandsix the climate crisis “.
Alfons Pérez, from the ODG, believes that episodes with the current DANA can “polarize” at the electoral level and that “there has created a certain awareness in a part of the population, which votes more for parts that want to face climate change”, but now “the denialist discourses of the extreme dredge also penetrate.” In qualsevol cas, yes he considers that in the cas català “may have gained greater citizen pressure against macroprojects with the expansion of the Prat airport or the Hard Rock complex”. climatic”.
Reduced emissions
To Eva Vilaseca, “Catalonia needs a clearly ecological Government that is seriously concerned and with first priority the climate emergencybut això there is no one who is a proponent.” In this sense, it is evident that “if això is proposed, there is a very great predisposition among the population” to donate-hi support and advocate for articulating “political proposals il · illusionants of a change of model, which meant planning our economy in a different way.” A short term, however, as Pérez considers that “It took time to saturate the beast that entailed expanding the Prat airport“, because “there is no social consensus” to expand the infrastructure and “the DANA is absolutely suicidal to propose.”
“Amb DANA it is suicide to propose the expansion of the airport”
Finally, Pérez comments that to prepare for future events or other phenomena that climate change will increase “there is better planning to adapt to it” and “it entails tough measures at the level of infrastructure, but also in questions.” “with the industrial model, most based on the automobile and the agroindústria, which would have to be changed.” Furthermore, he advocates exploring “public-community collaboration” as a means of responding to extreme phenomena: “if we believe that it is an emergency situation, the population must be trained to respond hi i hi “has experiences in the global south with many resources and community responses that are very powerful.”
Vilaseca, at his turn, poses des de mesures “molt bàsiques que podrien fer-se ja”, com ara “aturar the urban plans that have plowed in flood zones“, to the ““reduced emissions, which is an issue that is both more urgent and requires changing our economic model.”. “Això needs to rethink our economy and its sectors that are in decline, such as tourism or macrogranges and això is a very big thing, but it is the only possibility that we have in the future in the new climate context,” he concludes.
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