Antonio Carrion Vicente, 61 years old, lives in Jumilla, Spain. He was a farmer before retiring.
What has climate change done here?
As a farmer I have noticed and perceived that the vegetative cycles of plants have been modified. We find that the blooms are out of time. We find that plants do not evolve from the point of view as living beings, as they evolved or as they worked a few years ago.
This is also modifying the landscape, starting, and it is also leading us to behave differently, we have to change the habits, uh, the cultural practices that until recently we did in a certain way and this is forcing us to make a series of decisions that we did not make before.
What do you think world leaders have to do now to stop things from getting worse and to help us adapt?
I think that the leaders, world leaders, who can influence or who can, who have to make decisions when it comes to preventing climate change from continuing along these lines, I think they should think much more along general lines, beyond the particular interests of different lobbies or different business groups.
At the end of the day, they are the ones who set the pace of this world. I think they should look at it from a more general point of view and more from a social point of view, rather than a commercial one.
The solution is to look for a middle ground. So, the middle ground, that's where it's difficult. To look for a middle ground between a world that is forced to produce and a world that is forced to protect. I believe that we should look for a way to find a middle ground rather than lowering consumption, which today at a social level, at a global level, is a way to find a middle ground. It is difficult to find the middle ground.
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