A quarter of the current century has already passed, leaving no room for the old habits of years past—practices that sidelined environmental urgencies and treated the 2030 Agenda as a somewhat comfortable, low-priority matter. The situation unfolding early this year casts doubt on the progress promised on the international stage.
Yet, interest in places like Greenland and Venezuela is driven by the prospect of natural resource extraction, placing fossil fuels at the center of attention. Absurdly, a shortsighted perspective is gaining ground: the drastic consequences of climate change are being viewed as opportunities, with the melting of glaciers seen as a strategic advantage that opens navigable routes in waters that were previously frozen.
Geography is thus taking center stage in political-territorial decisions that, while not rooted in denialism, are utterly negligent; they fail to acknowledge that environmental damage respects no borders.
