This Friday is guaranteed to be none for the future. Be streams in the world students on Friday for the Future. But at the same time Black will take place Friday, this holiday of consumption, this the day of the alleged super special offers and crowded shops. Two Fridays, which could be more contrary – and yet so closely related.
Because, of course, the students are on the streets, children of the consumer societies. If you look closely, you can see on the back pages of some of their posters and the curved arrow of an Amazon delivery. And it is not excluded, more likely, that some of the limited Demo is still an afternoon of Shopping. All day Black Friday is Yes.
That sounds contradictory, but in this society, deeply rational. Why should someone for a product to pay more than necessary? Who saves with a bargain, still has money for another, and there is so much. It is the rationality of a society which maximizes its Benefit; and is of the firm Belief that more products pens also make Use of more. You can shake your head or make fun of, but a logic that is not without.
The rationality of its customers, the providers will follow. Along the value chain, you press the cost, to the poor people, who toil at the end of this chain. This comes at the expense of quality, of course. But in a world, in the fashion collections every few weeks, are obsolete and electronic equipment after a few years, unfit, plays the eh not a big role.
Many of those who know this Friday on the road, and then go to the shops, what all this means: If this continues, it will not go further. Actually, the protesters are demonstrating not only against the ruling, but also against themselves – against consumption and life styles which would show them to their parents, but neither the future, nor as a model for the Rest of the world are good. And you guessed, on this black Friday, even more than to the other: From your own strength you will come out of this vicious circle of Rationalities, from this world of seemingly limitless, but not out of the range of possibilities.
climate change is only the best known of the problems, he is representative of the disastrous repercussions for the future of forgotten life – styles-so, as the plastic carpets in the world, many students are not seas made aware that what they throw away is still long from the world. You set the own consumption into the big picture.
But the problems in the global village escape is now on the national design. Would be asked about the policy, and the far beyond a symbolic “climate emergencies,” and many billion for climate protection. At its core, it’s about lifting Standards: Standards for agriculture, prevent the careful, is on soils, groundwater and species diversity of thought Bauer at the end of the Stupid. Standards, with negative effects on the Environment in production costs, with prices for carbon dioxide emissions, which have earned the name. Standards for the Design of products, make them repairable and allow raw materials to recover.
the need to Succeed in the conditions of free world trade. In liberalisation fever of the nineties, such Standards did not play a role, from the fear that you could be need to the foreclosure of markets miss. That was a mistake on the policy, but can schedule. Of course, Standards will work for a more sustainable agriculture, if imports have to meet. Of course, an effective CO2 price keep that can, if it is pitched at the border on imports. And, of course, can improve the situation for the poor people at the end of the value chain only if strong environmental and social standards in trade agreements, the demand. The are very, very thick boards. But as things stand, only the policy can start to drill.
It is, therefore, also in this Friday for the future, not only to the climate but, in General, a society that makes it at the expense of others, even of other generations, good to go. And just the Black Friday proves how difficult it is to escape this pattern, in spite of all the Appeals to the “Mature consumer”, which can, however, consume more consciously; to sustainability, “qualitative growth” and a new frugality. In the face of a bargain price it’s easy to like the dog with the bone. Often in the dull awareness that many of the black free-days of future follows.
Created: 29.11.2019, 07:43 PM