Serbia is a great looking country I think. Well that entire area. My former neighbour was from Serbia, she fled the country with her parents when the sh*t hit the fan in the 90’s. Currently online racing with people who live in Slovenia and Croatia.
It’s a shame the countries in that area are so much different to each other. Not that we are the same as Belgium or Germans 
but the entire war in former Yugoslavia didn’t do good for anyone I think. And don’t think some countries governments make that change very soon. Politics, hard do something about them and sometimes pretty doubtful while one country can join the EU and another can’t. Some who made it shouldn’t I think but well, there must be something in those countries which is worth it 
My comment about those stickers was a bit like if you sticker everything it won’t have any impact anymore. Well if it has one than it’s to make everyone really scared of everything. But like you say, some things are really harmful but if it gets the same label as an USB cable in CA… well…
That scare tactics worked well if it’s about the climate. Global warming is a serious thing but I’m personally more about environment than climate. I think a lot of younger people got the idea the climate itself is controllable like the heating at home. And it’s media who brings news that way but actual reports from scientists don’t put it like that.
We have our impact burning fossil fuels like crazy but since climate is dynamic it will always get either colder or warmer. Let’s say human behaviour contributes for 30% than reducing our attribution to 0 will slow things down at most. Latest IPCC rapport I read said it was way less but it’s about the overall idea.
When covid hit temperatures increased even faster when there was less production/traffic etc. But that makes sense since the atmosphere gets cleaner and more sunlight hits our surface.
Sunlight which won’t hit the surface because of pollution doesn’t get trapped under that famous blanket of CO2. And what young generations are not hearing is that the past decades the air quality got way better in most Western countries. I like clean air but basically that’s not working well if you want to bring the temperatures down on earth.
Currently we producing ‘green’ solutions like crazy and I’ve never read somewhere that producing more stuff is doing any good for environment or climate for that matter. It became a nice model to earn money. And it gets specifically weird if you start using wordings like ‘CO2 Neutral’ because in my opinion there is no such thing. That’s some creative form of book keeping which makes no sense.
Most CO2 gets absorbed and released by oceans which make 2/3 of this planet. If the climate warms up that will have an impact of ocean life and therefor the amount of CO2 absorbed or released. But even for scientists that’s still a big puzzle and that’s why there is little consensus over causes and outcome.
Can’t blame scientists, with roughly 140 years of temperature measurements against billions of years climate you miss quite a lot of data. And basically science is correcting wrong assumptions from science in the past.
If I would have kids from around 20 I would rather make them aware that they are spoiled to death these days with all stuff you can buy but that every other year a new mobile phone, 40 pairs of sneakers do have an impact on environment.
I personally think that’s way more important than worrying about the climate itself, world will survive but currently we make a bigger mess than ever producing more than ever, that’s a bigger problem.
When I was 11 (39 years ago) I held a talk in my class about acid rain and all predictions that there wouldn’t be any forests anymore. And a lot has done to get a better air quality but that also had certain side effects nobody calculated. Some trees don’t really like clean air and do better with more sulphur in the air. Nature is way more flexible than us humans for that matter. And most plants like CO2, in greenhouses they use a higher level of it so plants grow a bit faster. And with nitrogen compounds it’s about the same. Most plants love it but not plants who live on really poor soil.
Here in The Netherlands they had big plans to actually put fields full of solar panels instead of crops/grass etc. But it’s a bit weird to cover up a field of grass which absorbs as much CO2 as a forest. Most of those plans are on hold and better since before you know everything here looks like some industrial area.
And I’m no scientist but I like reading rapports now and then and I think there are so much contradictions in what we produce, build and what we are trying to achieve. The idea we ‘humans’ can turn the climate around is imo pretty arrogant and not a really good enough reason to produce more than ever.
I think it’s a better idea we started to build some nuclear power plants years decades ago. Yes there is a risk but if something goes wrong you’ve at least a great area in 30 years full of animals/nature. No way you get that from solar parks or wind turbines. And the amount of waste for the Netherlands would be a container a year. Well even we can burry that somewhere save on our own soil. Our German neighbours shut most of the nuclear plants down and now burning brown coal instead. Way to go. Well, it does put a lot of fine dust in the air so that will at least actually help against global warming…
Crazy world. Not worth losing sleep about it I think. At least as long as governments will do enough to protect the coasts and stuff against rising seas. And if it does keep you awake, just read some actual scientific rapports about the climate and impact of everything. Clickbait is also a thing on news sites these days.
