RE: Fighting a common enemy in climate change

Hi to you,

If you want to do something for your environment, you might be exceedingly busy right now putting together your own group, in conversation with the locally accessible political actors, proposing small-scale solutions on how to bring the much-touted environmental friendliness into being, without looking to the large-scale solutions that, if we so choose, will also offer us just that.

You would need a lawyer to explain the legal and bureaucratic hurdles you would inevitably encounter in the regulatory catalogue of what you are and are not allowed to do as an individual. You would have to deal with hundreds of pages of documents of a bureaucratic and technical nature, learn a language and a subject matter to give your local authorities a handle with which they would have to convince their superiors.

They would have to be inspired in such a way that they would refrain from the fact that there is no mass market to be developed here, but, on the contrary, first of all investments have to be made and spaces have to be created, which in turn encounter opposing interests. You would have to get the local politician away from his assumption that the upcoming election campaign is more important than your small-scale solution, with which no media coup can be landed. All this would take hard work, many hours of your life, for which you would not even be paid, let alone be able to rally many fellow campaigners around you, who would also bring a lot of time and patience to keep the conversations alive and the counter-arguments out of the way.

If the common people were so interested and concerned about their living space, their front gardens would not look like vacuumed living rooms, devoid of life. Meaning, people like to talk about the end of the world and are afraid of everything possible and impossible, without recognising their own inertia. I do not exclude myself from this. I have neither the knowledge nor the inspiration to deal with technical (very very boring) details and to found citizens' initiatives, because when you then call them together and want to motivate them to take responsibility for their own activities, the citizens like not to know what to do and expect you to tell them.

If these words do not frighten you, if you remain enthusiastic about a technical solution and still want to work on it against all odds, I sincerely wish you all the best. There are always people who do just that. Of course, they are not very well known or famous. You would have to look for them in your environment and find them, if you are not such a person yourself, and then support them with your time and your strength.
No offence.

Greetings to you