Francesca Rivafinoli's article from the vasarnap.hu portal.
"You need to use less water, electricity, and gas" - sounds the latest popular education slogan from the left, widower Béla at the end of the village will be happy to turn down the convector and wrap his gouty limbs better if he can't stand the cold. It's time to take it back from hedonism up there, also in Borsodhottyoska-also, because we are in the twenty-fourth hour, in the last minutes of it: Aunt Zsóka must finally tremble at every kilowatt-hour that she hammers into the coffin of Mother Earth Gaia by cooking plum jam.
Take the example of the world's leaders: there is no sacrifice they would not make when it comes to protecting the climate. There is, for example, Joe Biden . Despite his advanced age, he spares no effort to take the nine-tonne presidential Cadillac, its replica and the presidential helicopter, assign them as luggage to the fleet of aircraft accompanying him and transport them to the climate change conference, so that when he gets there he can sit in one of the preheated diesel limousines (with an average consumption of 29.4 l/100 km, but who's counting), then drive to a castle hotel with a golf course 67 kilometers from Glasgow, accompanied by the presidential helicopter and the 20-car motorcade, and then commute with the same escort to the climate conference. Where he draws the attention of the world: "None of us will be able to escape the worst if we cannot seize this opportunity" - and then he rests with a short bob for the evening commute home and the inconveniences of the four-star golf hotel.
But he had to live there, because the original looking five-star Gleneagles hotel (also with a golf course), which offers itself magnificently 75 kilometers from the conference venue, would no longer have been able to provide him with a sufficient number of rooms - the house is full of many climate-protecting VIP because of guests who drive 150 kilometers a day between two air conditioners for the sake of an elegant suite. (There are still empty rooms in a luxury hotel in the heart of Glasgow, of course you can't play golf there.)
However, there is no reason to worry, of course guests are transported by electric cars and SUVs. Well, let's say there aren't enough charging stations in Scotland, so they finally brought diesel generators there and use them to charge the e-Jaguars.
However, lest anyone think that it is a bad diesel, it is not: it is a good diesel, because it is made from hydrogenated vegetable oil, which has lower emissions; so thus, the "24. per hour" can certainly be freely wasted, perhaps even Greenland's ice will refreeze if enough electric luxury SUVs are charged with it in the Scottish countryside.
Boris Johnson - due to lack of time - unfortunately had to rush back to London one night (after the tiring all-day verbal climate defense) by private plane for a dinner at a famous men's club; which is not a drama anyway, since 400 private planes already arrived at the climate summit from much further away, so the host's journey is actually trivial ; only then should the original producer Aunt Zsóka not be sanctioned with a climate tax for daring to use electricity to preserve the plums grown in her garden for her grandchildren.
Of course, there are the Greens who set an example: they arrive by train to the climate change conference because they are good people. For example, the anti-nuclear Austrian climate minister arrived in Glasgow last night after a 27-hour journey. It would have taken six hours by plane and the trip would have cost half the taxpayers' euros, and there were also plenty of last-minute tickets for scheduled flights, so the minister would have even improved the per capita emissions of flights if she had occupied an empty seat. but he rather spent a day and a night and a half before the supposedly very important negotiations. There is no word on whether there will be a return train as well - but we have some guesses.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a great friend of train travel myself - I've passed through the German section countless times where a Syrian was stabbed (a good advertisement for the railway) - but it's quite impractical for masses of ordinary people to choose it for climate protection reasons (masked) odyssey when the plane is there. In the case of an official trip, this would mean that the employee is away from his family for two more days; and for a possible private trip, the application would require an extra two days of leave.
Of course, we can switch to this, but then next time Joe Biden should please come to Europe by caravel without diesel limousines.
There's no question: we don't waste electricity, water, or gas, we take care of the created world, we always keep in mind the cardinal virtue of moderation. However, before anyone wants to raise Uncle Béla and Aunt Zsóka (who live without mobile internet, plane trips and electric wine grinders) with gas pumps and climate taxes, perhaps it would be worthwhile to first reduce the per capita climate perception in the developed world. What if the annual carbon dioxide emissions per capita would automatically decrease , which is currently 14.24 tons in the United States, 13.06 in Luxembourg, and 7.69 in Germany. The EU average is 5.84, while Hungary's per capita emissions are around 5 tons.
Source: vasarnap.hu. Author: Francesca Rivafinoli
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