Fiji is already suffering from more frequent typhoons and floods and will be flooded much faster than some places in the EU – and that also hovers the Europeans.
“What are you doing at this rally, what does climate justice mean?” I ask a curly blonde in her twenties who stands in a column with a banner about justice.
“Why, everything is fine in the north, but they are bad in Africa. There are droughts, sandstorms, famine. And the islands in the Pacific Ocean will go under water, where will people flee? We, Europeans must be responsible for this,” explains she is.
At this phrase, we are interrupted by the beat of drums and chants, under which columns of demonstrators for the climate move along the main streets of Bonn.
“Climate justice” conceals the responsibility of developed, industrialized countries for climate change. The greatest difficulties will fall on the island states, which will simply be flooded with the rise in sea levels. Will go to African countries, where it will get even hotter than it is now. Therefore, Europeans are soaring “climate justice”, which is associated with imminent climate refugees and the costs of adapting to climate change in the world’s poorest countries.
At the beginning of negotiations back in 1992, they talked about preventing climate change and reducing emissions, now another task has been added – adaptation to climate change. Those who do not adapt will not survive. At whose expense will the poorest countries adapt? How much money will developed countries need to adapt? The question of money, of course, hovers across Europe.
The abandonment of coal became the leitmotif of the Bonn talks. Protests took place before the negotiations began, anti-coal activists blocked coal lobbyists’ activities in the negotiations themselves, and at the end of the negotiations, 25 countries, including Canada and the UK, formed a post-coal alliance with the motto “Let’s live without coal.”
In addition to coal, the atom also got it. It has not been considered peaceful in Europe for a long time. The thing is that there are no immense areas where you can take waste from the nuclear industry and, as it were, forget about them.
“There is no safe technology for radioactive waste in the world. In Germany, this problem has not been resolved either. Now there is a license for the disposal of nuclear waste for a period of 40 years. The most famous disposal site for radioactive waste is located in Gorleben. Containers with waste began to be brought there in 1995, which means that in 18 years the question will arise of what to do next with this waste.