When she first found fame, the Grammy-winner was appalled to see how environmentally destructive the concert business can be. Now, as one of the most influential touring acts in the world, she is building a blueprint for change. "Things don't have to be done the same way."
  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
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    2 days ago

    I linked this article because I think this is exactly what is needed - many people re-thinking hard what they want, how they do it, and how to do it better.

    It is basically re-inventing our civilization from building cars and cooking stoves to how to do traditional German Easter celebrations without setting stuff on fire. A monumental task - and so much room for human creativity and ingenuity.

      • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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        2 days ago

        Bonfires apparently, at least in parts of Germany.

        I don’t see anything significant suggesting they’re being discontinued. It’s a relatively small amount of wood mass being burned on one day a year.

          • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
            4·
            2 days ago

            Are there that many? How much wood are we talking per person per year?

            Some of the articles I saw suggested that it was (at least historically) trimmings from hedgerows, which are too thin/green/wet to be useful for much else.

            In a lot of places farmers burn piles of unwanted vegetation anyway.

        • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
          1·
          2 days ago

          It’s a relatively small amount of wood mass being burned on one day a year.

          Yeah but it is culturally wrong to still burn stuff just for the sake of it. Like a stone age ritual. Like killing a kitten when a baby is born. We need to stop burning things. In the light of what we know, it lacks respect for life and our Earth.