Oetti
2020-06-25 14:06:43
- #1
That's right!
It is always an overall consideration, especially of the personal lifestyle. That is also the prevailing consensus here.
For example, my parents didn’t even know the word ecology. Back then, people used partially forbidden poisons and other agents in the garden, practically uninsulated houses were heated with oil/wood. All of this wasn’t really that long ago.
And yet, in their overall eco-balance, they achieved values that none of us today would even come close to reaching, nor would anyone want to.
No car, no travel, vegetables and fruits only from the garden, forest, or neighbors, hardly any meat and if so, slaughtered themselves, pasta made by hand, and no unnecessary consumption and energy-consuming technology, etc...
This is not meant to be the old familiar praise, “Everything was better in the past,” because it wasn’t, and I like innovation, a comfortable life, and beautiful things.
But this generation could truly have called themselves super-ecos in their overall balance, simply living what was normal and possible for them.
When I see this comparison with our (including my own) consumption today, none of us can ever see ourselves as acting ecologically, whether with or without certification.
For this reason, I view all these certificates critically, because our usual lifestyle today can’t be ecological at all.
We would have to give up so many conveniences (which I would reluctantly do), and many simply couldn’t do it at all.
We should be this honest with ourselves, with or without KfW or whatever.
It’s best if everyone starts alone for themselves.......
I welcome every nature-preserving action, for example, I will hardly manage my property at all and just leave it as a meadow, as it is. But I am aware that even the excavator that does the digging causes an almost irreparable damage to the ecosystem of this beautiful, large meadow, no matter whether I build a parking lot, playground, or house on it.
What annoyed me primarily was the bar-room drivel that battery storage (whether in cars or homes) is the worst thing in the world and that combustion engines are the solution to all environmental problems and are practically even environmentally friendly in production and operation, and that battery solutions are evil.