The time window to turn around is just closing.
In the year In 2016, Der Spiegel wrote about the fact that CO2 emissions rises faster than ever before. It paints a gloomy picture of the future ... now it is almost 2021 and we all know by now that the time will soon be missed to maintain our own livelihood. We destroy ourselves and rob the next generation of their lives. We urgently need to start consuming less instead of going along with the growth craze.
And that's not a summary of the plot of a new online game that can be played on the 5G Internet with up to 500 players around the globe. No it's the reality. It's about the air we breathe, the water we drink and the land that produces our food.
According to estimates by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), those who do without meat save 0,98 tonnes of CO2 equivalents per year. The unit takes into account the effect of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Vegans even save two tons of greenhouse gases, as an investigation on behalf of SPIEGEL revealed. "
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"That is why we participate hundsfutter simply veganne Chew bones for dogs. "
It really is time to wake up now!
If we carry on as before, we will soon have to give up everything and have nothing at all. There is no more time for Climate hypocrisy.
The eternal ice melts gone, everyone knows, but hardly anyone takes the threat first Article reported from the mirror.
If we pay attention now and develop a sense of responsibility together for life itself, other people and our children, then we would quickly notice that what on the surface feels like doing without also brings a lot of new wealth. Ideal wealth. All the things that money can't buy. As much as it is led to believe in the media. Excessive growth and reckless consumption do not really make you happy and you become more and more dependent and that real values are becoming more and more inaccessible. Now there is still time to spend less instead of succumbing to the growth craze.
A virus shows us what is possible.
Actually, the Corona Virus shows us a lot of what we have not or could not appreciate in normal life. Personally, the lockdown gave me so much time with my daughter that I was never allowed to have before. The car-free streets were very pleasant and a bird nestled on the roof of the house opposite and we had an atmosphere in the middle of the city center like in the forest. Real values that will only become possible when humanity is massive slowed down becomes. For me, using less also means gaining a lot. It wasn't really a renunciation, I won so much.
World congestion day was 3 weeks later than expected in the corona year.
The 3-week delay of this year also shows us very impressively OVERSHOOT DAYSwhat human activity does. This year the virus forced people to live differently than normal. They simply had to consume less instead of continuing with the growth mania.
The OVERSHOOT DAY. is the day on which mankind has used up the resources that the earth can regenerate each year. From that moment on, humanity lives on credit. Instead of starting to consume less that day, the world continues with its growth mania.
Well, it's mid-August, long until the year is over. That means, as of today, the refrigerator will be empty. But we do not hunger or thirst, we exploit the world unduly. We don't live sustainably. Today we consume what future generations would need to live.
“And our children have to be really angry because they Technology that minimizes CO2 emissions is available here and today. In this post explains what a heat pump is and how to install it. And to top it off, many citizens are currently spending their savings to have their heating switched to gas. A really resounding success of the disinformation campaigns of the fossil lobby systems. Bravo."
“Energy policy is also a slap in the face of people who care about their children's future. In this article, Der Spiegel explains how the government is actually helping exactly two companies, disregarding the agreed climate targets, to continue to earn a lot of money. The general public pays for the environmental damage. The use of wind energy, which is on the verge of being able to significantly serve the energy hunger of our country, is being thwarted. An act that tramples our lives today and the future of the next generations. But best yourself here read up. "
How can we even answer for such a thing?
It is so monstrous what human society can afford. The words of Greta Thunberg when she first appeared will be with us forever.
Yes, we cheat the following generations for their lives. And also your own children. Instead of starting to consume less today, we are driven by the growth mania.
We do not want to accept that times change and that there is happiness without self-destructive growth. With the slowing down of activity by Corona, new opportunities have arisen and there was room for things for which otherwise simply none Time was.
Living sustainably means gaining a lot of new things and not just doing without some things.
A sustainable life may sound like giving up at first, but in reality you also gain infinitely much. It is a different life, but enriched with many real values, which unfortunately almost all of us have been lost.
We believe right now that the only happy life is how we live today. And we are also specifically manipulated into believing it that way and not starting to think about it. But just consuming less solves the problems we cause with growth mania.
“Here is a comparison from the Vegunary Blog of the different types of milk in comparison with cow's milk. All herbal alternatives are much more climate-friendly and need less water and less land than cow's milk. So ... what is waiting for. And she's healthier too. "
We need to protect the foundations of our lives from ourselves.
At the moment we are losing important time in order to protect the foundations of our lives from ourselves in good time.
Social responsibility must become a matter of course for every individual.
But how should people develop a sense of responsibility if the lead dancers themselves are not consistent. How is a young person supposed to understand that environmental sins are NOT a peculiar crime when many of the greatest environmental destroyers in society are walking around with impunity? How can you convey to people that you can also travel by bus and train when the private jet or helicopter are the preferred means of transport at the climate summit and, above all, when the topic is dealt with seriously at the meeting, as if about that Design of the new 10 euro note would be debated.
One false signal after another.
How can one keep the courage that something can still be saved in our society when the Hambacher Forst now is to be sacrificed for the coal that lies beneath him. This is particularly painful because after the forest destruction stopped in 2018 big protest, the hope grew that RWE and politics would have understood something. But for these people it's all about the money and they defend themselves against any initiative that shows that consuming less instead of falling into growth mania is the order of the day.
When a * CO2 tonne price of 10 euros is passed, which was only later raised to a price of 25 euros per tonne of CO2 at the massive insistence of the Greens in the Bundestag, which is still far too little, how can one hope for a sense of responsibility? .
There are solutions today to many of mankind's major problems ... but they are not being used.
In a world in which there are many solutions to important problems, but through intensive lobbying being blocked, one can actually despair. So that in the end the growth mania often wins over any sensible initiative to consume less.
"Cheap meat gets good grades when testing the Stiftung Warentest. It is a completely wrong signal to even run such a test. It really is about other more serious things than the good taste of Cheap meat. "
“A recycling system only makes sense if it is financially attractive to process the recycled plastic. Unfortunately, crude oil is still tax exempt for the production of new plastic. As a result, almost all manufacturers use newly manufactured plastic. It's cheaper than the recycled one. The recycled plastic becomes a big problem, because the countries to which we send it do not know what to do with it and it ends up in nature, the sea or is burned. A clear consumer deception and a completely wrong signal that has cost the world a lot. "
In a world in which most thoughts are focused on the fact that you are in a good position as a party and you can't really blame anyone about the distribution of offices for only being concerned with yourself and worrying that something might fall away from which is natural for one. And, of course, that things continue to “look up”. And by all means we will manipulatedthat we go around in circles and that no critical thoughts arise.
"In the Election campaign the parties make the mood with an ideal world that exists for fewer and fewer people (but nobody says that). This is not at all a contribution to the fact that everyone understands how important their contribution is. Rather, it is the invitation to live irresponsibly and leave the complicated things to the party. This goes with the hackneyed sentence, whoever leaves himself is abandoned so well that he has to stand here. "
But we can't just stand by and watch!
Absolutely no way. Because the future depends on us. As long as a system pays the best returns for projects that destroy life, basically nothing will change. We have to set the right signals ourselves. We have to force the right decisions.
If, for example, all drivers simply keep driving their old cars until the industry comes up with a really sustainable concept ... I think the development would accelerate enormously. If we leave the animal welfare hypocrisy of the food industry on the shelf, then suddenly the changes for more animal welfare would suddenly take off.
"We prefer to look the other way instead of doing our part to ensure that livestock are kept at least a little better."
And when we start regional and fair shopping many unscrupulous exploiters would suddenly do bad business and the unpackaged shop culture that had just emerged would be able to continue to establish itself. But if we just look the other way and continue to accept what is presented to us without criticism, nothing will change. We then continue to be “fed stupidly” and it costs our children the future.
With everything we do, we could ask ourselves whether that is okay or whether it is up to us to choose a sustainable alternative. And we can simply use less.
When you start with it, you suddenly realize how many options you have, with the madness that is happening and being propagated, of simply not participating. As long as we as consumers are free in our purchasing decisions, we have a very powerful instrument in hand. Please let's make something of it together.
