Award Ceremony for the 2023 Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize

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As a huge fan of Ludvig Holberg, from his local city, and having read all his writings (almost), I must salute the winners. It was great that Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen was familiar (in-depth, a litle dept or both) with Holberg. In her speech she so elegantly touched into the humorous layers of knowledge Holberg have past on. Great! Professor Emeritus Joan Martinez-Alier showed a lot of humble gratitude reading him self up on Holberg and the Alta-conflict. Touching so softly into why a prize carries Holbergs name was true and funny. But, small countries - especially those with a short history going solo, needs names! Anyways, he certainly was familiar with our local musiscian Edvard Grieg, even if the Holberg suite had to be googled. Mr. Martinez-Alier being direct crushing the term “circular economy” based on the most fundamental law of physics (second law of thermodynamics, with regards to entropy) was simple and elegant (even if it is so fundamental and easy it is and have been obvious for many from the start). His message meets a problem not only of the school systems, being too few knows the basics if physics, but because politicians - as in EU - promotes this logical fallacy. It is a very, very deep problem, wherein those budgeting and directing education at the same time spend resources on propaganda with information that is nonsense. Professor Holberg, or economist Holberg, or human Ludvig, would never ever do or promote what politicians of today do. (I’m quite sure minister Borten-Moe didn’t understand the implications of the speech.) Professor Emeritus Martinez-Alier held a very interesting speech. Thank you!