New Year New Start

 Yesterday we got up lateish. I suppose no surprise there, because in the end of the day — or actually in the beginning of it — we got home at 0100.

I’ve sorta made resolutions; but I’m still a bit sick so they probably won’t matter this week… great way to start the New Year, eh?

My resolutions:

-       I am going to use less energy 

-       I am going to use less hot water

-       I am going to use less water

-       I am going to use less fossil fuel 

-       I am going to buy less crap from China

-       I am going to support only those brand who at least claim they do something for the environment 

-       I am going to buy recycled products 

-       I am going to buy secondhand clothes 

-       I am going to try to convince my family on composting 

-       I am going to concentrate even more on recycling 

-       I am going to travel more by train

-       I am not going to drive in the city — which will be quite challenging back home

I think that list is long enough already and I’ll do my best keeping them. However, I hope you’ve also put some resolutions on your list connected to the environment! We really need to change the way we think, travel, behave, because things are getting out of hand. Just think about how warm yesterday was or it snowed in Seattle! It hardly ever snows there! Or think about the flash floods in Germany early this year. These are all events that proves that climate change is real. And if we are already talking about Germany I’m afraid we are not doing enough to stop the climate change. In Germany they’ve been closing their nuclear power plants till 2030 — because a) Merkel got scared after an earthquake and tsunami combo in Japan resulted so problems and b) it’s not renewable. However Germany still needs energy and still going to need energy, which they are going to get by burning coal. The planned closing of the coal power plants are in 2040, after it they will use basically only renewable energy… Do you see what my problem is here? The world 4th biggest economy does something remarkably stupid what could the other countries do that we don’t even know about?! Oh, and it was also a nice move by the german politicians when they started fucking Poland for mining coal and burning it when those power plants feel Berlin’s energy needs..

Sorry for shitting Germany so many times, but I honestly think they should be able to do better than this… 

I guess what I really wanted to say with this blog is that we all should try and consume less for our future to be brighter…

Thank you for reading,

Almos

*I’d like to make it absolutely clear that I have no problem with german people I have buncha german friends who I love, although I’m not that happy with german politics, I think they have a terrible tunnel vision, and the mistakes they do now will be suffered by other Central European countries. Just think about diesel cars; they were claimed to be amazing, and VW sold billions of instant cancer makers, then they realized they are bad, and majority of those filthy polluting cancer-causing cars ended up in Poland, Hungary, Romania etc, where people gonna get sick of them. — I think battery powered electric cars are exactly the same dead end as diesels were. Why isn’t it obvious that Hydrogen is the future damn it?! Sorry tomorrow I’ll write about my day not about what’s wrong with Europe.

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