(commentary by zemeunvalsts.lv)

Public media, of course, is not a basket of strawberries or a bag of €100 notes, so it will not please everyone. Two trends that these media outlets should analyse in detail in this regard are: marked predictability (by inviting a specific commentator on a situation, whom for some reason they label an expert, and doing so again and again, it becomes clear to those well-versed in the situation even before listening to or watching the piece, as rare is the commentator who changes their mind) and negation without a solution (if the public broadcaster itself, through its staff, complains about funding issues, it does not seem logical that the same media outlet would vehemently campaign against state revenues; we must move away from fossil resources, but this should be done as slowly and bureaucratically as possible... The media outlet offers negation without a solution. Who is this duty intended for?)

"This issue is not entirely new. While on a Latvian scale we might understand it as small hydroelectric power plants, for example, globally it involves all kinds of renewable energy production methods," noted Jānis Rozītis, head of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Latvia. He stressed that no environmentalist is against renewable resources, but the transition to using these resources should happen gradually, rather than within a timeframe of months or a couple of years, as is currently happening under the influence of the energy crisis.

"Renewable energy resources can be environmentally friendly by their nature, and renewable energy resources can be environmentally unfriendly, including to biodiversity. This is often not entirely clear to the buyers of this service," assessed J. Rozītis.

"Currently, we know that Russia's war in Ukraine has triggered a crisis, and we are talking not only about meeting climate goals but also about achieving energy independence, which is also essential, and in this sense, it might be good that we can kill two birds with one stone," admitted Viesturs Ķerus, head of the Latvian Ornithological Society.

However, this issue cannot be looked at in a simplistic way, where all renewable resources are good. In his opinion, people often forget that the first and best step would be to consume less energy and to save it. (...)