17.9°C at the Netherlands' main meteorological station in De Bilt today.
Highest temperature this early in the year (1901-), beating the old record by a full degree!
#ClimateChange #globalwarming
@Sustainable2050 And there are fewer and fewer things anyone can do to improve the situation in any way, when corporations and governments are actively making it worse...
@dmbaturin @Sustainable2050 the single biggest thing (except for not flying every week) one could have done hasn't changed the past decades: #goVegan.
The next biggest thing is spreading this #vegan message.
@janneke @Sustainable2050 The problem is that someone flying their private jet every week easily negates the effort of thousands of us who adhere to plant-based diets, so that individual choice makes no difference in the grand scheme of things.
And the world is now rapidly turning to "drill, baby, drill".
@dmbaturin @Sustainable2050
It is obvious that you're a meat eater looking for an excuse not to #goVegan.
One continental flight compares to a year of eating meat. Only fifty of us can neutralize the harm done by such a super rich flying bastard.
Of course, the super rich do produce a terrific share of CO2, but (many of us) going #vegan will have an immense impact.
Of course, one should go vegan for the animals anyway.
@janneke @Sustainable2050 It's obvious that you love to jump to conclusions and put words into people's mouth. I suggest that you should stop doing that if you want to have productive conversations.
Where did I say I was a meat-eater?
Yes, I'm assuming too much and jumping to conclusions. I'll give you that.
I suppose that's what having years of "discussions" with people who pay for animal suffering and the destruction of your planet does to you. Also, message/tone policing is usually a dead give-away. The only reason that I'm replying is that I'm *really* hoping you're going to prove me wrong here so that I might learn something.
So please shame me for my untimely conclusions and tell us what an ethical #vegan like yourself hopes to gain from posting such a defeatist message "there are fewer and fewer things anyone can do..." as you did,' when it's so bloody obvious that getting others to go vegan may well save your planet?
@janneke @Sustainable2050 I used to believe it was obvious that we could save the world. I'm increasingly less certain about that.
I give up meat for ethical and environmental reasons, but the industry continues to get massive subsidies. I avoid plastic packaging, but environmental regulations are rolled back in front of our eyes. I do everything I can to avoid flying and all carbon-intensive transportation and reduce my own carbon footprint, but emissions hit record highs. I build software that can run well on low-power and older machines, but corporations are pouring enormous amounts of energy into Ponzi schemes and copyright laundering and disinformation machines.
I sill want to do those things because I believe they are right things, but it doesn't feel that it's going to make any difference to the outcome. There's little consolation in the fact that I personally didn't make things worse.
@dmbaturin @janneke @Sustainable2050 so you're vegan?