We would be riding cows instead.
I've heard that you fall off the edge of the world, if you go too far.
Fisk er mindre klimabelastende, men vi har til gengæld problemer med overfiskeri, og man kunne måske i stedet for subsidiere eller sænke momsen på planteproteiner. Hvis vi skal fortsætte med at være et landbrugsland, er fremtiden måske alligevel i forarbejdede klimavenlige fødevarer.
Det er for eksempel helt absurd at kiloprisen for tofu ligger på samme niveau som kiloprisen for kød, alt efter hvor/hvad man køber, selvfølgelig. Jeg er med på at det ikke er alle der er en fan af tofu, men der er mange andre alternative "køderstatninger", vegetariske/veganske færdigretter og ganske almindelige grøntsager som indeholder meget protein, og som man kunne erstatte lidt af ens (okse)kødforbrug med i stedet for.
Jeg synes dog at det er helt på sin plads, at vi også beskatter de ting i vores samfund som skader klimaet.
There's also Coromon, which even has a similar style.
No car, plane rides or children. I also eat less meat than average, rarely buy new (or used) stuff and vote for one of the greener parties.
I grew up (first world) poor, so this was just the way things were, when I was a child. My income is still quite low but I could absolutely live more lavishly than I do now, if I wanted to.
I think you could argue that this is an example of cognitive dissonance. It is uncomfortable to come face to face with new information that contradicts your beliefs or actions, and it requires energy if you want to integrate that new information into your worldview and adjust your actions. It is much easier to deny that information, even when it is clearly true.
For example, when it came out that aspartame might cause cancer, if you (like me) have eaten/drunk a lot of products containing it or have had a strong belief that it was completely safe, then it may be more comfortable for you to criticize WHO or think "well, it's not really relevant for me because my family isn't predisposed for cancer." If you didn't care about aspartame or artificial sweeteners before, you will probably readily accept that there may or may not be a cancer link.
In Danish we say "endestation" instead, which can be translated as butt-station. Sometimes the endestation is Middelfart, or somewhere on Lolland.
Having your groceries delivered or buying a moped or motorcycle might be an option for you. I don't think anyone on here would begrudge you using a car in that situation, though.
I think the anti-rural sentiment you sometimes see, mostly stems from how unsustainable and car dependent the lifestyles a lot of people who live outside cities are. People who find a job in a city to get a high pay, move out of said city to get a garden and then commute back and forth between their home office and their work office, with very little concern for how they effect the world around them. They take no personal responsibility and don't want to take collective responsibility either, because that could threaten their lifestyle.
People who live in suburbs, villages or rurally because that is where it makes sense for them to live, isn't an issue. It makes sense to move to the countryside when you retire and no longer have to be anywhere. It also makes sense to live in the countryside if that is where you work or if you work from home. Some of these people would benefit greatly from owning a car, while others can get by just fine with a bicycle or their own legs.
You can also do a lot to lessen the dependence on cars outside city centers. You can easily run metros and trams into the suburbs and encourage a higher density (more row houses and smaller apartment complexes). Rurally you can encourage people to build villages (clusters of houses) instead of every house being spaced evenly apart, and you can run bus lines through those villages.
Jeg tror det handler mere om livsvilkår end kultur.
For rigtig mange filippinere og indere ville det at arbejde som SOSU i Danmark, være en forbedring af deres levevilkår. For danskere som er vokset op i middelklassehjem kan det nemt blive til en forringelse, og selv os underklassedanskere kan se at det giver langt mere mening at blive elektriker eller djøfer. Det er ærgerligt, for jeg tror egentlig at der er mange som gerne vil omsorgsfagene og som ville trives i dem, hvis arbejdsforholdene var bedre.
Hvis man gør det ordentligt tror jeg godt man kunne lave en ordning som gavner alle parter, men spørgsmålet er om vores politikere er interesserede i det.
I get that, but those were the kind of nuances and perspectives that I was talking about. You can think that drunk driving is a bad thing that should be prevented, without resorting to black/white thinking like: drunk drivers are bad and they should be thrown in jail.
Maybe they should be, but what is the downsides of that policy? What is the reduction in drunk driving and drunk driving accidents expected to be? Who are the drunk drivers and when do they drive drunk? What do they do in other places/countries? Anything about our country/area in particular that causes people to drive drunk? Is there anything else we could do that is more effective and/or less expensive? Could an alternative solution be to run busses through the night? Involve parents? Require alcolocks to be installed in cars?
It's not about whether you are a good or a bad person, or about what your beliefs or values are. In my experience, poorly educated people are just more likely to think in absolutes, which makes sense, because analytical thinking and the ability to view things through different "lenses" and from different perspectives, is something they try to teach you in school.
If only artists could hold copyrights to their works, this wouldn't be an issue.
Corporations are usually not the ones who create art, they just hire people who do. If Disney spends an astronomical amount on money on hiring artists and producing a work, there should be a separate set of laws that protects them from someone sweeping in and stealing the franchise or the product. It shouldn't be down to copyright-laws, because Disney isn't an artist.
Copyright also grants the right to opt out of the commercialization of your work. Even if you really like a painting I have done, you should not have the right to demand that I or someone else sell prints of it. If I instead want to just keep it on my Instagram profile, in my attic or hanging on the walls of a gallery, I should be free to do so.
If you make something public people have the right to look at it and to get inspired by it, but I don't think it's unfair to ask that the artist retains the commercial rights to it.
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I haven't seen this option mentioned yet but you can also order your groceries online, and have them delivered. That's what I do at the moment, because I live outside the city and my nearest grocery store is 2 km away. I could bike or hop on a bus, and I do sometimes, but ordering online is just really convenient.