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Shaped like an irregular circumference, it is the coin that has just been issued by the Bank of Lithuania today, June 28. Coin with which they want to raise awareness about climate change and warn us that there is no planet B, we must take care of the one we live on, as it is our only option.
On the obverse of the coin appears the main motif revealed by artistic means: the planet Earth, which disappears due to reckless and selfish behavior: the planet will perish if humanity does not take responsibility for it. The composition is surrounded by the inscription LIETUVA (LITHUANIA), the denomination (10 euros), the year of issue (2022), and the mint mark of the Lithuanian Mint.
The reverse of the coin bears the symbolic inscription NĖRA PLANETOS B (THERE IS NO PLANET B).
Characteristic
Facial €10
Metal 925 silver
Weight 23.30 grams
Diameter 45.90 x 47.10mm
Mint price €77
Country Lithuania
Emission volume 2,750
Quality proof
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With the issuance of this coin, the climatologist and philosopher Silvestras Dikčius also wants to alert us to the situation that we men have generated and the dangers that everything remains the same entails, summarizing it in the following text.
For the first time in history, we are able to model our future, measure the consequences of our actions, put them into equations to estimate changes in the system. For the first time, we are facing a threat that has expanded abnormally over time. Thinking ahead and planning for decades, generations or even centuries is not something we are very familiar with. Climate change does not have a single aspect, a precise moment, a location or limits. Climate change is a perpetual companion of humanity, but this time we have caused it ourselves.
From the geological perspective of the past, the global climate is changing at lightning speed. In everyday human experience, change still seems slow. Climate scientists have estimated that, compared to the pre-industrial period, the average temperature of our planet has increased by up to 1.2 degrees.
We have created a civilization that depends on fossil fuels. A cheap energy source gave us superpowers, but everything comes at a price. Over the past 150 years, we have burned billions of tons of coal, oil, and natural gas. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now higher than in the last 800,000 years. And these levels continue to rise each year.
We have been enchanted by cheap energy and we cannot stop. The large amounts of excess energy can no longer be absorbed by the climate system. The oceans are saturated with the waste we produce. The trees that could absorb some of the greenhouse gases have been reduced and are still being felled.
The balance is almost lost. The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees set by the Paris Agreement is already imminent. Few doubt that this threshold will be crossed in the next two decades. Grimmer scenarios predict that it will happen before 2030.
Since time immemorial, the climate has been influenced by the Earth's orbit, axis changes and volcanoes. When environmental conditions changed, our ancestors simply collected their belongings and moved to other areas. Today this option is no longer available. The refugee crisis in Syria is a warning to all of us. It was catalyzed by an unprecedented prolonged drought that later sparked unrest in the country. This crisis demonstrated how difficult it is to escape from danger in the modern world.
The megalomaniacal gibberish of colonizing other planets in the solar system sounds like the romantic dream of an adventure-seeking child. Everyone knows that there is no such thing as Planet B. Even if one day the spaceships manage to set sail for Mars or the satellites of Jupiter, it will not be a majestic journey to the stars for all mankind. . It will only be for a select few, a flight to a harsher world while fleeing from the monster that we ourselves have awakened.
Climate change is an existential problem of humanity. To understand it, we have to step away from our familiar perception of time and pragmatism. It is a perfect puzzle. So that the long-term plan 'humanity on planet Earth' does not fail, now is the time to change.
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