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> small sacrifices My impression ist that people are talking about sacrifices for the sake of sacrafices and not to solve the problem. If the global warming (a
by dorgo 7y ago
> small sacrifices
My impression ist that people are talking about sacrifices for the sake of sacrafices and not to solve the problem. If the global warming (and related problems) would be (magically) solved tomorrow, they would be disappointed because no sacrifices were needed any more.
Are sacrifices even enough to solve global warming?
And sacrifices have a marketing problem. It's hard to sell them to billions of people.
- sgolecha 7y agoI am not talking about sacrifices for its own sake. What I am saying is to do things that reduce greenhouse emissions. The problem needs to be tackled in top-down (government policies) and bottoms-up (where consumers make behavioral changes). Europe seems to be more in tune with top-down. In the US, bottoms-up seems to be the only option. Once people change their purchasing decisions - e.g. stop buying anything that comes in individual plastic packing etc, companies will be forced to make changes. Another example - stop giving non-sensical loot bags in b'day parties or stop taking or giving gifts altogether.