• zout@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    To be honest, as a Dutchman I think our current right-wing government parties will decide that their dislikes for “the environment” outweigh any economical advantages.

    “The environment” is in qoutes because they’ve separated the word from the meaning, to them the inveronment is an abstract thing that “left” people talk about. Also, not actual left, just all the people who don’t agree with them.

    • Tobberone@lemm.ee
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      2 hours ago

      My hope, and my belief, is that the switch to greener options has started and might not be easily stopped. EUs fit for 55 is a big deal and on the transportation side we see electrics making inroads in the market in a rather big way. Gas prices has plummeted and since production hasn’t gone up, it’s just demand side left.

      On the construction side if things green heating options has diversified, come down in price and with local low temperature heat storage solutions might be even cheaper and less power hungry.

      The only fly in the ointment is that we need to describe it as “increasing resilience”, “cutting cost” and “decreasing dependency on over seas deliveries”. As long as nobody mention “the inveronment” as the reason to do something.

    • smokinliver@sopuli.xyz
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      8 hours ago

      Idk how you did it but the way you casually but precisely summed up the populistic strategies is just beautiful.