Combating oil lobbies is extremely hard, albeit absolutely necessary, but I don’t think having the common populace hate you even more than they hate the lobbyists is a good first step.
The problem is that the common populace does not hate the lobbyists and oftentimes refuse to acknowledge that they even exist. If you do anything at all, you will end up with a massive comment-thread on every social media full of boomers and right-wingers calling for your head to be detached from your body asap.
The rest of your comment is telling me that you don’t live in Denmark or at least don’t pay attention to danish politics. Our government is a joke. The Social Democrats are right wingers. Everything is being privatized. Public transportation sucks. Solar panels have so much bureaucracy attached to them that it makes no sense to ever bother with it, both at a local and global scale, and often doesn’t end up netting you any profit because taxes. Windmill projects can be vetoed by churches within some distance (I forget the specifics, but this means that PRIESTS have final say over windmill projects in most of the country, and golly gee do they use it) and aren’t ever built where they are most useful because that might lower property values on the west coast and we can’t have that. Our fjords are dead and we’re shooting the seals for eating the last remaining fish instead of blaming the trawlers that overfished in the first place. Every single fucking attempt this country makes in the right direction has some boomer cunt stir up a storm on social media about how the latest railway expansion personally shot their dog and raped their cat and nothing short of equal backlash will be enough to shut them up because the sitting government listens to them and not us.
Denmark is not doing okay, we’re on the same downward spiral as everyone else. We just started off better due to actual social policy in the 60s, so it might seem like we’re ahead of the curve, but we’re headed for the same climate hell. Every month is a record month for our climate and nobody cares.
We’ve been asking nicely for decades and very little gets done. Historically speaking: if you want something, you have to take it.
The problem is that the common populace does not hate the lobbyists and oftentimes refuse to acknowledge that they even exist. If you do anything at all, you will end up with a massive comment-thread on every social media full of boomers and right-wingers calling for your head to be detached from your body asap.
The rest of your comment is telling me that you don’t live in Denmark or at least don’t pay attention to danish politics. Our government is a joke. The Social Democrats are right wingers. Everything is being privatized. Public transportation sucks. Solar panels have so much bureaucracy attached to them that it makes no sense to ever bother with it, both at a local and global scale, and often doesn’t end up netting you any profit because taxes. Windmill projects can be vetoed by churches within some distance (I forget the specifics, but this means that PRIESTS have final say over windmill projects in most of the country, and golly gee do they use it) and aren’t ever built where they are most useful because that might lower property values on the west coast and we can’t have that. Our fjords are dead and we’re shooting the seals for eating the last remaining fish instead of blaming the trawlers that overfished in the first place. Every single fucking attempt this country makes in the right direction has some boomer cunt stir up a storm on social media about how the latest railway expansion personally shot their dog and raped their cat and nothing short of equal backlash will be enough to shut them up because the sitting government listens to them and not us.
Denmark is not doing okay, we’re on the same downward spiral as everyone else. We just started off better due to actual social policy in the 60s, so it might seem like we’re ahead of the curve, but we’re headed for the same climate hell. Every month is a record month for our climate and nobody cares.
We’ve been asking nicely for decades and very little gets done. Historically speaking: if you want something, you have to take it.
this is the type of comment i want to leave any time someone praises a scandinavian country for almost anything.
the image of the nordics most people outside of them have is from 40 years ago.