I am 18.000 the deaths last summer due to the heat in Italy. Considering that a town like Muggia has approximately 13.000 inhabitants, it is easy to understand that this figure is enormous. Estimates from the article's research team shared here suggest that, in the absence of an effective adaptive response, the European continent will face an average of more 68.000 premature deaths every summer by 2030 and beyond 94.000 by 2040.
But what should European governments do if they decide to tackle the problem of climate change with the same seriousness with which they have dedicated themselves to the recent pandemic? Reducing the use of energy sources of fossil origin is certainly an objective to be achieved, but it is not the most effective and fast. It would take several years to wean ourselves off oil, in a world where many of the things we need or want to have will travel thousands of miles. What can be done immediately is to remove all sources of financing from those who keep animals for commercial purposes or, better yet, ban the fertilization of animals on farms. Making plant-based nutrition so advantageous that it becomes predominant. This can be done starting today and would not only save human lives and other animals that literally die from the heat, but also not to give birth to animals in prisons with a death sentence at a young age.
But faced with government inertia, we shouldn't even stop and wait for something to happen. Let's continue to inform people who care about animals and the environment. “We must become the change we want to see” (Mahatma Gandhi)
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