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Originally Posted by Catfish
Skybird wrote:
Whether Germany does something or not, is indeed of (almost) no influence, because China alone is good for thousand times a bigger pollution, and it will not stop at the Great Wall.
(Aber: " Deutsch sein heisst eine Sache um ihrer selbst willen tun."  )
But even if we cannot know exactly what is the cause and what drives our current climate change and warming, we can be sure that man contributes.
And if e.g. Germany invents a better pollution filter or some kind of technolgy that helps, the effort will not be in vain. |
We do not agree often, but sometimes things happen. I assume we nevertheless would find our deamons in the details again.
Nothing against technological innovation - if it indeeds helps, I am all for it - if it can be economically, and by private persons: financially, sustained. But to put that into question, I just refer to one of the typical German problems:
energetische Gebäudesanierung, Hausfassadenisolation. Here is where I cannot help but just grinning wide, it is absurd what is beignt rie dhere, it auses so many negative side-effects, and I happened to have seen the black-on-white numbers for several 1-2 family houses owned by people I knew from university times - and who all, without exception, are not happy. These kind of house renovations did not calculate well for them, especially wall and roof isolations. But heating and windows also do not hold the promises they make. Not to mention things like bad room climate, fungus, algea, and the rotting of isolating material. And if then the industry and the various activist platform offer calculations for your house's current energy status that can vary to up to 180%, trust in these calculatiosn and models is not justified.
Its all about securing income for the concerned businesses.