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Sustainable Banks – Every Euro is a Ballot!
This is the sequel to the article “Is Your Bank also Investing in the Destruction of Our Future?”. While the focus there was primarily on the devastating investments and business practices of many commercial banks, in this part we look at possible solutions: sustainable banks. We cannot wait for the commercial banks to become aware of their ethical and ecological responsibility and finally to systematically pursue divestment, i.e. to withdraw their (actually our) money from fossil fuel projects. Rather, each and every one of us should consider whether our own money would not be better off with a sustainable bank. Sustainable banks, what is that supposed to be? “Sustainability” is…
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Is Your Bank also Investing in the Destruction of Our Future?
Next week I’ll be at the Klima-Café Plus Lübeck to give a presentation on sustainable banks. I take this as an opportunity to dedicate two blog posts to this topic. 🙂 Here’s part one – on destructive commercial banks and their climate-damaging investments. (For part two, see Sustainable banks – every euro is a ballot!) What have banks got to do with the climate crisis? While the corona pandemic dominates the media, the climate crisis continues unabated. Even if the seriousness of the situation has not yet been realized by everyone, many people now know what they can do to make their personal contribution to climate protection: Use bicycles, buses…
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Why are SUVs so damn popular?
For quite a while, SUVs break one sales record after another. A type of vehicle that does not seem to fit in our time at all. Compact, fuel-efficient cars are out of fashion. But why are SUVs so damn popular? Why in heaven’s name people all over the world are buying ever larger cars with ever stronger (and thirstier) engines, when many roads are already congested and parking is scarce? And how does that fit in with the insight that we need to massively reduce our CO2 emissions to save our climate? It would be easy to run SUV bashing for a complete blog article. But confrontation and demarcation does…
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Parents for Future: Fighting the Crisis Together
Hi there… yeah, this blog is still alive! It only paused for a while. And in this first post-break post, I’ll tell you what happened and how the Parents for Future helped me get on with it. Until February, writing was going on quite well. I had some burning issues to write about – then, I somehow got out of step. Of course, there was a lot to do beyond this blog – at work, in the family. But it was not just that, something else prevented me from writing. A kind of “crisis of sense”. Rousing other people is harder than expected In November 2018, Nicole and I started…
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Greenpeace Climate Charge – it concerns us all!
Finally: The federal government of Germany is being sued for its negligence in pursuing its self-imposed climate goals. Anyone living in Germany can apply for participation in the Greenpeace climate charge . In the application, however, you have to explain why you are “directly or even existentially impaired by the consequences of global heating” . Hm, it sounds like climate change is a temporary, limited problem that affects some people and not others. Is that correct? But from the beginning: In 2014, the German federal government set the binding goal of reducing carbon emissions in Germany by 40% compared to 1990 levels until 2020. This was the so-called “Climate Protection…
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Christmas: The Great Consumer Frenzy
It is the run up to Christmas. It is exactly that time of the year when pretty much everyone is wondering what presents to give whom for Christmas. Anyone who is well ahead of it has already obtained the first gifts or at least already created an overview of gift ideas. Those who are far from that far begin to get more and more stressed with each day that the festival of love approaches. In any case, the retail sector is looking forward to it, as it benefits mercilessly from consumption at Christmas.
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Time is Running out – so let’s act now!
I’m worried. Big worries. So big that – when I wake up at night – my thoughts are constantly revolving around it. These are existential concerns. Worries that our planet is being thrown off balance. Through climate change, through environmental degradation and mass extinction of plants and animals, through plastic pollution. In front of our eyes. Now. Caused by us. Those who have the invaluable privilege of living on this wonderful, unique planet. My worries are mixed up with pure bewilderment. About that we just keep going like before. About the fact that many people do not seem to worry about these things. As if the countless signs did not…
