You could do it as Germany does it and have a first past the post for local representation but then scale up the size of the parliament to actually represent the amount of relative votes per party.
Tbf right now that makes our parliament the 2nd biggest in the word which is fucking expensive but at least you have representation and actually having your vote matter in region that's deeply one-sided against for party
I don't say the single person is responsible - I say the population as a whole is - and for that to happen there needs to be a massive shift on the individual level as politicians won't vote against most of their population.
It's less about the individual responsibility for climate change but about a motivation to become politically active and get more people on board - leading by example is just a very low-level approach that everyone can do.
I'm not pinning anything on poor people - I'm just saying that pointing fingers will do literally nothing and I think we should work within the current democratic systems which in turn means that everyone is at least a bit responsible for who they vote for. And voting and advocating for a party that promises to cut down emissions of everyone is the most logical thing as just removing the billionaires won't fix a thing if polluting isn't made more expensive which definitely WILL influence everyone.
It just seems very immature to use this thing as a "get out of jail card" to continue flying every year and doing the shortest possible trips via car instead of taking the bike for a change or advocating for more bike infrastructure in cities.
It's not going well because a lot of people seem to think they are not affected and want to ignore the whole issue until it's too late and nature forces them to change - and it's frustrating. Everyone should've started adapting to a more ecological lifestyle yesterday but that obviously didn't happen. If it did it would be much easier to actually get politicians to change something
Von dem Geld was bei Radwegen und U-bahnausbau eingespart wurde
Between surveillance camera footage, the guy shooting rocket launcher from the front door and this what would you consider as evidence instead?
Naja welcher Neonazi sprüht Davidsterne? Außer man hat bei der hälfte gedacht dass man ja ggf. ne falsche Spur legen will halte ich das doch für eher fragwürdig.
Andererseits haben die halt auch ein Interesse da dran wenn sich die Muslime und Juden an die Gurgel gehen... :/
I'm as left as you can get without being straight up communist - I despise neoliberalism and think that countries should to a lot more to make billionaires nonexistent via redistribution of money and higher wealth- and inheritance-tax but for this issue it's just not enough if everyone washes their hands in innocence and only points to them
sure their personal lifestyle is much shittier than the one from the average person but pinning the emissions from companies they own on them is just making things far too easy on the average person
People need to vote for a green transition and not for some shortsighted utopia of "if we just remove the billionaires climate change will be fixed" - that's not the case as long as demand is still there
das man wenn man anfängt umweltschädliche Produkte zu verbieten es eine direkte Konsequenz wäre dass wir kein Öl mehr importieren könnten
since they included pollution from the companies those people own (which is a very weird way to attribute it) not a thing will change as long as there's demand for what those companies produce
Yeah - at best they are morally responsible for not choosing to invest in something else but in the end as long as there's capitalism and people are creating demand for whatever polluting thing they procude someone else will step in
The Demand has to be slashed by making those products less profitable if the general public is not acting in their own interest because polluting is cheaper and more comfortable
Especially if people are just going directly to "eat the rich" after articles like this I really wonder what they think will happen if the oil-production is stopped completely from one day to the next? And that even assumes that noone will step up to continue the production - what if the state takes over the oil-company and spreads the emissions evenly among every citizen - would that solve the problem of climate change in their minds?
Wobei endet ja 2019
Ggf ist da wirklich die deutliche delle von Corona immer noch zu spüren von der sich der Individualverkehr nicht wieder "erholt" hat weil seitdem viel weniger Leute zur Arbeit pendeln müssen
Also gibt es ab nächsten Monat kein Benzin mehr an den Tankstellen und kein Kerosin mehr an den Flughäfen?
And it's not just the salary for the representatives but they all also have a state-paid office and staff - so yeah...
There have recently been reforms to make the districts bigger to get less direct representation in total resulting in a smaller size overall.
I'd expect that especially with a 2-party system it's not as bad as you calculated though since the worst problem here is that a local party from Bavaria is winning almost all the direct representation spots there but gets way less votes in total in Germany which results to every other party sending way more people than they would need