These days the news is filled with stories about the “extreme”, “record-breaking” and “deadly” heat waves sweeping across Asia, the US and, most notably, Europe (and especially Italy). Rome — my hometown — has been redubbed the “infernal city”. I appreciate the global concern for us poor Romans but I can assure everyone that we’re actually doing okay. To be honest, I can think of several much more hellish places around the world at the moment — cities plagued by famine, terrorism and war. And yet we are told that the current heat waves are a taste of the “hell” that awaits us as a result of climate change. Such sensationalism is revealing of the climate hysteria that has gripped the West — and the way in which it is seriously hindering our ability to devise rational solutions. It is also completely distorting our perception of the world, and pushing us to make increasingly irrational — and ultimately very dangerous, if not deadly — choices for poor and marginalised people everywhere, in the developing world as well as in rich countries. Read the rest of the article here.
Thomas Fazi 