So the world is coming to an end after all
With the exception of orange-coloured presidents, everyone has understood that the world is doomed, but only a few sell it really well. Least of all, of course, childish environmentalists who play hooky from school, even during holidays and other non-school hours, as if there were no tomorrow. Well, and that's exactly where the problem lies.
What is tomorrow?
Geologically speaking, man has not even been on this earth for a blink of an eye, and already underage online demonstrators are claiming that we have destroyed it. How is that possible? We didn't invent heavy industry, and we all didn't want a constantly rising standard of living that would exploit the earth's resources for the next 1000 years.
And that's where the salvation lies: once humans are gone, the Earth won't care much whether our musty biomass is decomposed by viruses or air pollution or preserved by polymers. After all, the climate crisis is not a crisis of the climate, but of the humans who make it so.
It's the planet's own fault
Starting with the continental drift that is shrinking the Pacific Ocean and growing the Atlantic, continuing with the moon moving away from the planet and no longer stabilising the Earth's axis, and ending with the melting of the poles that is steadily raising sea levels, our world is not only threatened but massively on the decline.
These are only centimetres a year at a time, but the Netherlands and California know why they are worried. Not to mention the regular pole jump that used to take place, which has been just as overdue as the ice age for half a million years. The last time it was nearly as cold on Earth as it is today was 25 million years ago, and only in the Permo-Carboniferous Ice Age 270 million years ago was it colder on average on our beautiful home planet (the editors only have the figures for the Phanerozoic, i.e. the period of the last 541 million years, the older staff members are in their home offices or retired and could not be reached for contemporary data).
Great climate
So if you want to complain that the polar bears will be homeless when the North Pole is ice-free in summer or the corals in the southern hemisphere and the equator will get sunburnt and we won't see any pretty colourful seahorses swimming in the reefs on our next snorkelling holiday in Australia, then it's the planet's fault, because the fish will be extinct by then anyway, so we won't be able to observe them at all, even if flying wasn't banned because of the environmental impact as well as the proximity to other people and we wouldn't be allowed to travel at all, then it has a significance comparable to the sack of rice in China ... Apropos: Not only travel, but rice is also banned, of course, because that is a grass that, like maize, cannot be grown and harvested in an economically and politically correct way. Not to mention that China refuses to plant a tree in the Amazon for every grain of rice, because that would be unfair, since the maize-growing countries do not remove a grain of sand from the desert for every grain of maize either.
But these are all scenarios for tomorrow.
Today, for the time being, it is important for us to achieve a new normality without superfluous rights such as breathing without covering one's mouth or nose, a democratic attitude or first checking online whether one is allowed to go out on the street, which we all accept and take for granted because we are experts on these things and whatever we are told about them. Because tomorrow - in earth milliseconds about 1800 years - this will be as important as socio-political opinions on the theoretical research of virologists.