all honesty nobody really wants to give up their comfortable
lifestyle - and does not necessarily have to! Raising awareness
will increase the pressure to look for "clean" and at the same
time sexy solutions. And who is better qualified then prominent
people like Christoph Metzelder to raise their voice and spread
the word...two thumbs up for speaking up and taking action! I dont want to reply the discussion we had here at the beginning
of the year, but i think it is important to say that now it is
not enough to talk about sustainablity. I think naturally it is
good to make the lobby for the ecology greater and greater and so
it is also important to make ecological investations, but we now
after the new studies of the UN must say that we must also
discuss the lifestyle in our first world. I think we have to
give up our comfortable lifestyle . It is really necessary to go
for a weekend trip to London. @metze: and to want to say here
Don´t fly or somethink like that. I think this is a debate we
must talk about . It includes a debatte about ideas like taxing
the oil for planes or f.e. the developments of miniairports like
dortmund . It's so true that most of us are unwilling to give up the
comforts of our lifestyles. It actually is perceived as a kind of
a nuisance to do so. But once we get over the idea that the
quality of our lives will decrease because of it, we can make a
big difference. It really starts with each and every individual
and making the right choices on daily basis. Also, teaching the
younger generation RESPECT and responsibility to me is key in
making a difference. But until we, the current generation, fully
embrace the idea and actually begin to implement it, we are all
just talking the talk. I couldn't agree more with AnnaSc02 - respect and responsibility
are the basis. However the capacity of understanding the
environmental topics and to have the time to think about this
stuff you need a certain level of education - and standard of
living. We know that the process of thinking about environment
starts once people have reached a certain lifestyle. Sad as it
might be, but this is what surveys tell us. Alex, i think it is dangerous to think that only our
high-developing countries are able to support the idea of
environment politics; beside i think it is important to
distinguish between the niveau of education and the comfortable
mobile lifestyle. I believe we can agree that education is the
key of the future namely for the whole world, but i think it is
also important that we ( the first world) shows that qualitative
growth with ecological and social responsibility is possible. I
would ask, how we can forbid the chinese drive cars if we
ourselves hat 2-3 cars per family. That´s not fair. I would take
up Anna´s and Metzes idea of teaching the younger generation
Respect and responsibility and would go still further; we need a
new definition of quality of our lives; because we also know from
the economics that after a period of growth a big bang will
follow. If we define our Life quality not only higher, faster
and further, but show that simple lifestyle is also with an
quality. This could be an example for the other countries.
Another point is that we must have a long breath: f.e biological
products has a long time problems to selling well even in the
green milieu and now in 2007 we have in Germany such a great
interesting that the german farmes can´t produce so much
biological products. Naturally it is so that sustainable
lifestyle also needs a financial basis but the most problems with
CO² Emissions we have not by the poor but by the rich; therefore
we Rich of the world have an worldwide resonsibility for
justice. Verena, nobody said that only high-developing countries are able
to support the idea of environment politics. I have understand you so; if not it is good, but you have said "
We know that the process of thinking about environment starts
once people have reached a certain lifestyle." it shows us that
we must unite the themes ecology and social. we must ask us how
even people from armer population can be sensitived to the
environment problems. I think one theme could be energy-saving.
A theme what have to become more appeal

 

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