Lies, damn lies and climate change
Bezos in Venice.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ylk5nznkyo
Milan in Perth.
You know what? I guess I can just stop teaching my daughter about restraint so that her generation and those that follow still have some planet left to live on.
It’s for nought and in the end, its to her detriment.
At the very least, spending the holiday abroad from our native Germany is less expensive. Statistics show that a vacation spent locally costs at least 6 % more, with some locations abroad being more than 50 % cheaper.
By spending more for vacations, we have less to spend on her education or other benefits.
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Preise/Internationaler-Preisvergleich/_inhalt.html
And that is before considering her image of the world, the culture she can absorb and the shared memories of being somewhere special.
Moreover, climate-friendly holidays tend to isolate us socially. People just care less about locations close by, so there are fewer stories to tell, fewer bragging rights to be had – which I can do without, but I am long past Kindergarten.
A good friend mentioned that he fully supports these thoughts, since the issue of climate change needs to be solved on a societal level.
I agree on a certain level. However, the past few years have shown that businesses, prone to falling to neoliberal though, point to the individual to make better choices (“the market”).
https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sham
Meanwhile, individuals cry for regulation.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629623003146
Regulators, meanwhile, call for industry to show restraint and to self-regulate. Or do they just call for what lobbyists tell them to?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_action_on_climate_change
Neither of them… neither of us… does anything but point their fingers at the next guy.
https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2022/02/Spiderman-No-Way-Home-Meme-Cartoon.jpg
What’s a man to do? I appreciate any insight.