Do you personally help to reduce your own CO~2~ emissions? What should the country do to reach this goal? Who will be the winners / losers of all this?
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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I personally try to live a minimal lifestyle. I'm concerned about this part of the Abstimmungstext:
I like the idea of the Klimagesetz. But I'm concerned that when companies buy new technology, they receive money from the Bund to do so. That money then goes to the companies that research and produce these "new technologies and processes". I really wonder if the Bundesräte, Parlamentarier and politicians have invested in these companies previous to the election. So the overall flow of the money is from us taxpayers to the investors of those companies that produce the "new technologies". Also we are assuming companies will not abuse these free money handouts and buy cheap new technologies and pocket the rest. Maybe I'm being paranoid but companies are always greedy.
I see your concerns about the article, but if some of these companies have used for their own good will probably surface much later, when the situation looks different. Plus, as i know the swiss bureaucracy, you have to make an effort, to claim money.
As soon as you get "free money" a lot of people/companies will try to fit into the box to get it. But i still believe that we have some great folks which deserve some support to keep their innovations coming. So personally, i try to see the good.
It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't thing.
There's always going to be grifters who'll try to milk such a program. But on the other hand there are legitimately promising ideas out there that could really benefit from a bit of a hand.
For example I've yet to see any agrivoltaics here in Switzerland but with the worsening water situation a bit of shade over various crops might be just what the doctor ordered.