Climate guards really exist and save our planet. Not with the help of muscle strength, but the forces that knowledge and beliefs give. Every day you can change the world for the better. This is the role of climate guards who are to be leaders of pressure in their environments.
Łukasz Łapiński is a climate guard. He uses the knowledge acquired during the training in his professional life. The goal he sets himself is to prevent such catastrophic decisions as, for example, replacing the so -called Wilczych pits, i.e. over 100-year-old wild forest, a concrete retention tank.
– Several hundred trees have been removed. Meanwhile, nobody wondered that these trees already played a role in the scope of adaptation to climate change, performed specific functions, that is, they built climate resilience – indicates Łukasz Łapiński, climate guard.
Residuality is the ability to adapt to changes taking place in our surroundings. The changes are indisputable and irreversible. We already have a climate disaster.
– The machine started and to stop her, we would really have to stop emitting carbon dioxide for a longer period, which does not seem possible from an economic, political and other point of view – says prof. Joanna Wibig, head of the Meteorology and Climatology Department of the University of Lodz.
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What is the role of climate guards?
Even what seems impossible today you need to at least try to influence. This is the role of climate guards who are to be leaders of pressure in their environments.
– Knowledge about the conduct of spokesman aimed at politicians, activities aimed at energy companies, banks, organizing protests, showing social resistance – says Katarzyna Wikiera from the “Pracownia for all beings” Association.
There is something to face: drought, naval rains, rapid floods, deadly heat. Climate change increases the incidence of extreme weather phenomena.
In this year's edition of training, natural gas will be in the attention center. Only a few years ago it seemed to be fuel, the use of which will be a bridge from carbon to renewable energy, but natural gas is almost 80 percent of methane, called carbon dioxide on steroids, because it is from carbon dioxide up to 86 times more harmful to the environment.
– It is not taken into account that throughout the entire supply chain, i.e. from the place of gas extraction, through the entire transport of gas pipelines, from ships that linked LNG gas, methane escape emissions are constantly occurring – notes Diana Maciąga from the organization “Polish green network”.
It does not matter that methane stays in the atmosphere much less than carbon dioxide, because it will spread into carbon dioxide.
– We are now working on what will happen in a dozen or so years, and we have already recorded quite a lot – alerts prof. Szymon Malinowski, a physicist of the atmosphere from the University of Warsaw. A member of the Committee on Climate Crisis at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The studio for all beings will accept the provisions of candidates for climate guards until March 16.
Source of the main photo: Greenpeace