Dit vond ik in ieder geval een heeeeel goed opiniestuk, maar ik ben biased en een beetje radicaal links op dit vlak: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/jul/17/neoliberalism-has-conned-us-into-fighting-climate-change-as-individuals
Het is natuurlijk belangrijk om zelf ook je steentje bij te dragen, maar het is zo frustrerend dat critici de (jongere generatie) klimaatbetogers proberen te pakken op hun vliegreisjes en smartphones en zo hun boodschap willen ondermijnen:
“Stop obsessing with how personally green you live – and start collectively taking on corporate power. Would you advise someone to flap towels in a burning house? To bring a flyswatter to a gunfight? (zo’n treffende metaforen!) Yet the counsel we hear on climate change could scarcely be more out of sync with the nature of the crisis.”
En ook deze stukken:
“At the very moment when climate change demands an unprecedented collective public response, neoliberal ideology stands in the way. Which is why, if we want to bring down emissions fast, we will need to overcome all of its free-market mantras: take railways and utilities and energy grids back into public control; regulate corporations to phase out fossil fuels; and raise taxes to pay for massive investment in climate-ready infrastructure and renewable energy — so that solar panels can go on everyone’s rooftop, not just on those who can afford it.”
“Of course we need people to consume less and innovate low-carbon alternatives – build sustainable farms, invent battery storages, spread zero-waste methods. But individual choices will most count when the economic system can provide viable, environmental options for everyone—not just an affluent or intrepid few.”
(net als dat mensen vega of vegan eten knap vinden terwijl het voor mij niet meer dan logisch is).
