CiaraClimate 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.
notsoloud@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.
@notsoloud This was in Ireland, so not a warm moist July :-)
Valheru Rides@CiaraNi Premier Inn?
@Valheru No, not Premier Inn. I don't think any one hotel chain is the sinner, I think they all do this kind of thing.
shaunyAlso: 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.
@shauny You are absolutely right
bigMouthCommie
Mo@CiaraNi these stickers are the biggest lie. Even if you put the towel back on the rack they will change it. But every hotel uses them until today
@mo They drive me bananas, it's such blatant greenwashing.
Chewie@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???
@chewie That's why I wait until the last moment to say I don't need my room cleaned that day. I hope that means the actual person doing the work can skip a planned room, instead of a manager just subtracting a room from the overall schedule and adding other work for the cleaner instead.