The following is from a feature article by Hiroshi Furuta and Yutaka Asaka in WiLL, a monthly magazine now on sale, titled "Slashing 'Das Kapital' of the Anthropocene! The following is a unique feature on a conversation between Hiroshi Furuta and Yutaka Asaka in the monthly magazine WiLL.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people all over the world.
Just another "global warming book."
Furuta
Mr. Saito has placed global warming at the center of his awareness of the issue.
The first sentence of "The Anthropocene" is as follows.
"I wonder if you are doing anything to prevent global warming. Have you bought an eco-bag to reduce plastic bags? Are you carrying around your bottle to avoid buying bottled drinks? Get a hybrid car? Let's be clear. If you only have those good intentions, they will be meaningless. It can even be harmful."
It's harsh, but the average global temperature has only risen 0.7 degrees in the last 100 years.
I think he is just stirring up a crisis.
Asaka
Mr. Saito is a typical global warming "C0₂ bad guy".
However, the debate on whether C0₂ is the cause of global warming or not and whether the earth is warming in the first place is very controversial.
From a scientific point of view, it is the C0₂ naysayers who are more divided.
For example, in 2009, the "Climate Gate Incident" occurred, and the evidence for global warming collapsed.
As the name implies, the emails of climate change researchers were leaked and exposed on the Internet, exposing their misdeeds.
They were consulting and cooperating with global warming skeptics to prevent their papers from being published and were falsifying data.
For them, it is inconvenient if the temperature is decreasing while C0₂ is increasing.
That is why they wrote honestly about the trick of falsifying the actual temperature data to hide the decrease in temperature (laughs).
They even talked about changing the definition of peer-reviewed papers not to be included in the final report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
At any rate, it is a complete lie that scientists agree that anthropogenic C0₂ emissions cause global warming.
The "field hockey stick curve" created by Michael Mann, a professor at Pennsylvania State University, is a famous example of global warming theory.
The curve was drawn as if there would be no significant temperature change only after the modern era when the concentration of C0₂ increases.
However, in the trial over this curve, Professor Mann refused to show the original data used to draw the curve, and he lost the case.
You can see that there was no original data that could be shown straightforwardly.
Furuta
Recently, they have even used a high school girl (Ms. Greta Thunberg) to stir up the crisis, haven't they?
Asaka
Global warming measures have a high affinity with socialism.
It is a way of regulating economic activities to prevent them from being carried out freely.
That's probably the reason why many environmentalists are leftists.
Furuta
It was also a lie that oil would run out.
Asaka
It is a book called "The Limits to Growth."
It is a report published by the Club of Rome, a Swiss think tank, in 1972, and it shows that by the year 2020, we should have entered a trend where the number of usable resources will drastically decrease.
The awareness of the problem that human beings have irreparably destroyed the earth is the same as in "The Anthropocene.
But in reality, with the development of deep-sea oil fields and shale oil, we no longer have to worry about running out of oil.
This article continues.
