This is just a repeat of the recycling scam [1]. It's almost abusive - making people feel responsible for a problem almost entirely out of their control.
[1] https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recyclin...
[1] https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recyclin...
Weirdest thing in my opinions is how much of educated people also fall in the scam as well
It appears that their one child policy - something that would not fly in the west - prevented a major crisis here.
That being said I think countries should deal with their population issues on their own instead of relying this heavily on imported workforce.
France was largely successful at keeping their fertility rate only slightly under replacement, so it is possible.
Edit: Can't confirm if the referendum was ultimately scheduled.
I realize covid-mandates were perceived differently from country to country.
Where I live, we first had a push for a general vaccination mandate, which was later more or less silently abolished because it turned out the promised efficientcy of the vaccines turned out to be not that high, and politicians silent, without explaining why, let the mandate plans slip back into their hiding place. As a result, we have pretty much destroyed any remaining trust in politics and so-called "experts" in the general population.
You can be farming carrots and live like a hermit and still be funding the CO2 industry.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-india-plastic-recycl...
It doesn't seem to be paywalled, but just in case:
Does europeans drivers are more sad than the American ones ?
Does vegan enjoy less their meal ?
Does Japanese feels poor to live in a 30m2 appartement ?
Hiding behind culture, habits and society is not enough to dumb their responsibility, especially for rich and smart people.
Don’t forget 30 days is often what it gets to form a new habit like dropping beef off your meal.
I've been vegan for years and yeah, it was less enjoyable and empirically less healthy for me than the more normal diet I have now.
I have lived in a small flat, and now I own a house, and yeah, the house is better. I can't imagine ever moving back into a flat unless I become impoverished.
The entire movement you propose is simply "be poorer".
The movement I describe is “sobriety”. It’s similar to being poor of something (big car) but you’re not lacking it, instead you choose to do without. This difference is a big deal in a psychology point of view and that’s probably why you feel “less fun”.
Totally agree with your point of healthiness of vegan diet, the case was more on quantity than beef/no beef.
I grew up poor in the UK. Poor people in the UK generally have houses and cars unless they're in big cities.
The majority of the people in the society I live in drive cars, live in houses and eat meat.
I could choose to do without these things. I don't because like, I don't need to.
Climate change will not be solved by me moving into a tiny flat. It will be solved by the UK figuring out how not to use natural gas to heat my house.
In 40 years my kids will likely own houses and drive cars too. Unless they choose not to. I'd love them regardless, but would be a bit upset if they were to turn out to be far-left extremists.
Figuring out how to heat a country without gaz will be easier when there’s less volume to heat, and energy crisis in EU drive more non-far-left-extremist to see sobriety as an asset within the solution.
From my own country president (and he his quite right/liberal):
> We are living the end of abundance. […] Our system based on freedom in which we have become used to living, sometimes when we need to defend it, it can entail making sacrifices. [0]
[0] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2022/08/24/macron...
Macron is famously not doing any of this.