European climate ambassadors champion the value of awareness and science at the Book Fair

David Ramos

Madrid, June 5 (EFE).- Scientific knowledge and individual awareness are key tools in the fight against the climate crisis: this was one of the conclusions of the roundtable "Writing the Future: Literature and Climate Action," which brought together four ambassadors of the European Climate Pact at the Madrid Book Fair.

Coinciding with World Environment Day, the meeting was attended by Isabel Silva, Luis Lehmann, Isabel Moreno, and Antonio Aguilera, experts in various environmental fields and promoters of the European Climate Pact, a citizen participation initiative that is part of the European Green Deal.

Moderated by Arturo Larena, European Climate Ambassador and director of EFEverde, the participants presented books and discussed the importance of words in climate action.

Science as an antidote to hoaxes

Isabel Silva, a food sector expert who presented the book "Ambassadors of the European Climate Pact. For a Sustainable World," recalled that "climate change is already here" and defended the importance of scientific knowledge to "debunk hoaxes and fake news."

The value of science has also been highlighted by meteorologist Isabel Moreno, whose book "Atmosphere of Hoaxes. Clearing up the main doubts and myths about climate change" specifically analyzes the phenomenon of misinformation in the meteorological field.

"We know we have a sector that systematically denies the majority. It's very small, but it makes a lot of noise," Moreno observed, while defending the role of scientific evidence in dispelling legitimate doubts about climate issues in the face of "the simple messages sent from this very small sector."

Circular economy and individual responsibility

From another perspective, economist Luis Lehmann, who introduced his book "Change the Economy and Change the World: Society and the Circular State at the End of the Age of Abundance," called for "changing the way we do business" and abandoning "the commitment to infinite growth."

Lehmann, who acknowledged that negative language about the climate crisis "no longer resonates as much as it once did," instead championed the circular economy as a "transitional" solution, which, he noted, requires becoming "a new human being, a 'homo circularis.'"

This individual perspective has been supported by economist Antonio Aguilera, who has called for accepting "own responsibility" and has emphasized the impact of individual actions: "When we buy something, we are rewarding one economic model and penalizing another."

Aguilera has presented "Anthropocene: The Hour of the Earth, Harassed by Man," a collection of short stories that seeks to raise public awareness.

"We have a lot of data and we have a very conscious society. I would like to send a message in defense of an awakened conscience. Any small measure or domestic decision is not just an economic decision, but a political decision," he concluded. EFE

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