Climate crisis dissonance. To the left, I see that the council has made vendors price their food according to its cost to the climate. To the right, I see the car company selling cars to people while telling them how to reduce their CO2 impact. Good thing my emotional rollercoaster doesn’t run on fossil fuel.
Climate crisis dissonance. The Prince and Princess of Denmark sailed by yacht from Copenhagen to Aarhus, a trip that takes 4 hours by train. They’re being driven around in a 9-car convoy for distances that take 5 minutes to walk.
Their yacht is docked below a UN Sustainable Development mural that should have been finished two days ago. But the artists are still painting it. The reason it wasn’t finished on time? The gable wall got too hot to paint on.
Climate crisis dissonance.
Pictured, left: a little blue sticker shaped like a tear-drop of water. Printed on it: a plea from the multinational hotel chain asking you, dear individual guest, to reuse your towel.
Pictured, right: a big fluffy white bath towel hanging on a big heated towel rack that is fully heated in July with no on/off switch that I can find. The towel is steaming hot.
Not pictured: the steam coming out of my ears.
@CiaraNi
I think drying the towel needs the heat more in a warm moist July than in the winter.
If the aircon is on, it's of course a mistake.
Also: a typical washing machine cycle uses 33-72 litres of water.
One beef burger takes 3,140 litres of water 😱
A plant based burger uses up to 95% less water.
So if the hotel restaurant served only #vegan plant based food they would make a far greater impact on saving the environment than this greenwashing performative nonsense.
@CiaraNi
I saw similar #greenwashing BS at a hotel:
It said if you hang the provided notice on your door to say you didn't need your room cleaning, you could save the environment etc etc, and you would be awarded with a free drink or loyalty points.... however, you had to do this before a certain time of the day.
It can't possibly have been to save money by telling the contract cleaners how many workers were needed for the job for the next morning, surely???
In Denmark, we see no climate crisis. we see climate change as a business opportunity and we are on the forefront of it.
We adapt, we stimulate further growth.
Definitely would be (in a "big city" context) better to have advertised electric bikes instead.
And yeah, the move towards more heavy cars is troublesome I'd say.
Unfortunately I'm not sure exactly how to get people out of the cars.
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