Hi Jack,

Thanks for your comments. Ms Thunberg is now 18, a student. She is not a spokesperson for the Climate Emergency. She is not telling older grown ups what to do. Instead, she and millions of young ones are demanding action. She is bright enough to understand and worried that action is not happening. Global decision-making elites are merely talking endlessly, making commitments that they cannot fulfill. Young ones are becoming aware that their life expectancy is now less than half that of their parents… They are also aware of the other ecological disasters and of the 6th mass extinction. They are vocal and they won’t stop being vocal.

You ask if Thunberg would understand my letter to her. I would think so. I certainly would have if someone had written something like this when I was her age, in the late 1960s. This is the paradox of our times. The essential matters are perfectly understandable by college students. A lot of young demonstrators are well read and in touch with some of the most cutting edge scientists in climate matters.

You refer to past crises like world wars. The current global situation is not comparable with those crises. The present is way worse, by orders of magnitude. This is one of the points I am addressing in my letter and in my recent essays. This is why I talk of a Fourth Transition. Humankind has never been in such a situation before. Thunberg knows this only too well. This is why she battles to see action.

You refer to people like Churchill and Roosevelt. My further point is that while people like them with a reasonable intelligence level and good education could run a country and face such past crises successfully. This is now gone. A Churchill would be lost in the face of the Climate Emergency and even more so concerning the Energy Seneca. People like him do not have the knowledge, experience and mind required to address what we face.

In my letter, I point out that over more than 50 years I have interacted extensively and at times intensely with members of the global elites. I have never met even one able to understand and address what is core and fundamental in the current global situation. People like me and quite a number of my colleagues should not have to write the kind of essays we do write. What we point out, on the basis of massive evidence, should be know and understood by all key decision-makers. It is not. This is why I talk of cognitive failure. And this, I know, a person like Thunberg is well equipped to understand.

I hope that my comments help,

All the best,

Louis