Electricity was high a few years back when the Ukraine / Russia war started but since then it’s back to a regular level…
My ac is running on 23c from 8 in the morning and till I return around 16-17 in the afternoon, which should tell you how much I worry about energy prices.
And none of that has had a noticeable effect on my QoL or any of the people I know, that I’ve talked to about this subjects since I read this post.
No.
Edit: Not to an extent that it has lowered my QoL at least. I realize groceries have gone up but so has wages where I live.
So never, because that is for sure not going to happen.
I have not experienced any QoL reductions due to global warming. Not any that affects me in a noticeable negative way anyways.
Which reductions in QoL are you thinking of?
They have plenty of wind energy too.
People won’t listen because they’ve heard something similar for decades now, and for most people in the western world they haven’t really experienced any decline in QoL due to global warming.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Maybe peaceful protest is not what we should be aiming for…
What does attention in this case help other than more people saying “look at those idiots blocking the road”…in my opinion it may even detract from the cause…
On the other hand, if the CEOs of the companies who are polluting our world and the politicians they’re successfully lobbying have to live in fear in their own homes, shit starts to change quick.
You support stopping random people from going where they’re going but I’m the selfish prick…
Edit: I’m not begging anyone to do anything. I’m arguing with logic… That seems to be aggrevating to people like you.
Edit2: also I’m not trying to get people’s sympathy. The people protesting are…
Depends how you interpret violence. Blocking the freeway is essentially holding people hostage for as long as you’re blocking it.
I think 5 years is extremely harsh but I do think a shorter prison sentence is a fair punishment.
You could be putting people’s lives in danger by doing it and even if you aren’t, you have no right to stop other people from going where they’re going.
If someone stopped me on the streets and refused to let me walk down a public street, that to me would be trying to hold me hostage and I’d react accordingly.
I will if I feel like our politicians deserve it. I definitely won’t hold people hostage to try and get them to sympathise with me…
I’m glad you were put in prison. Go protest in front of where politicians live or in front of the parlament. Don’t inconvenience normal people.
Best case scenario, you achieved to piss of a bunch of random people. Worst case you killed someone who was having a heart attack and being rushed to the hospital.
Mud slides comes when you remove too many trees. You can remove a lot of shrubbery without increasing chances of mud slide.
True, they don’t have the same kind of wind usually but their forests are immensely more flammable.
I’m not an expert but from everything I can find about this topic it seems like fire prevention absolutely could have avoided most of the houses that burned down.
Oh definitely. I bought an electric vehicle last year and I sure as shit didn’t go for a tesla.
I know but it’s also a bit of a cop out from the ones responsible for this. There are controllable factors that the state just ignored for years on end.
I’m all for renewable energy and limiting climate change as much as we can but theres a reason thousands of homes doesn’t go up in flames in Sweden or Finland. Both of those countries manage their forests and does fire prevention regularly.
And probably will be our cross to bear forever.
It’s the ironic thing about power. Generally the people who end up in power are the ones seeking it and they’re generally the people you least want to lead you.
I should probably have said that I’m Danish and not American, so that may be why people are so confused about me not experiencing a decline in QoL