The Corona pandomie is a flurch, a sigh with what awaits us
The corona pandemic is a flurk, a sigh, compared to the storm that awaits our children by global warming. This said writer, scholar and former Deputy Prime Minister Jan Terlouw last night at the opening of the academic year of the Academy of Franeker. Jan Terlouw (88) gave the first lecture in a series of four on 'government and corona', but he told his hearing in the Franeker Martinikerk that there is a much, much bigger problem than corona. This is climate change, which is caused by the massive global use of fossil fuels. #klimaat
Corona will be over in two years at the latest, and then there will be an economic dip. The government has to face these consequences, but there is a more important task: to make the whole world switch to non-fossil energy. As far as Terlouw is concerned, it could be nuclear power, but that is a very expensive solution. According to him, the best choice is solar energy.
In the AD series Waterlanders Jeannette den Boer and Stefan Coppers make a world trip to experience how climate change already disrupts everyday life elsewhere on Earth. Waterlanders is a five-part series in which the viewer is confronted with the global water challenge. See all episodes on the right.
Anthropocene
The term was conceived in 2001 by the Dutch Nobel Prize laureate chemistry Paul Crutzen. According to Crutzen, overpopulation, deforestation and environmental pollution have changed the planet in such a way that we have left the official geological age of the Holocene and entered the anthropocene.
Antarctica melts jump-by-step
Climate Once the melting of the Antarctic ice has begun, this process can hardly be stopped.
