Dozens of Swiss glaciers likely to disappear this summer

This is so crazy

but dont you DARE to even mention things like:
– reducing meat and dairy consumption
– tax externalized cost of waste products e.g. kerosine / flights, petrol SUVs

I mean, changing my habits a little and accepting that sacrifices are sometimes needed in life feels much worse than knowing 100% that proceeding will make our civilization collapse and makes my kids die. Never ever stop eating a cervalat every day!!! NEVER!!

in the end switzerland is so small 8M that it doesnt matter anyway /s

Don’t worry guys the DETEC will fix it…oh wait.

Environmental externalities should be priced in on goods and services. Right now all those externalities are basically free. Beef at 120chf per kilo, petrol a at 4chf/l, flight tax that doubles the price of any easyjet ticket. Beans, lentils, electricity form hydro , and vacations by car / train will become immediately more attractive. And this needs to happen at global level. That’s the only way consumption will be rebalanced towards a more sustainable profile.

“oh, but that way only millionaires will be able to afford meat!” Are we aiming to have equality on the table or reducing emissions?

Too easy to say it’s the billionaires fault flying private planes. That’s a drop in the ocean. Corporations pollute because we ask them to produce ever more without increasing prices. That’s how we end up with cargo ships full of Temu shit across the oceans. Putting more environmental regulations on companies will just shift our consumptions to those that flaunt them because their products will be cheaper.

Are willing and ready to vote for this? not even close, because we know that France, China, US , Brazil, India etc will not follow us down this road any time soon, so our economy and us will suffer for no measurable gain. At the end of the day, Switzeralnd going alone in this will not move the needle.

So let’s enjoy the glaciers while we can.

This sucks. On the bright side the arctic is going through a historically cold summer and the Great Barrier Reef is at near record levels.

https://arcfieldweather.com/blog/2026/6/16/arctic-temperatures-running-at-historically-low-levels-as-we-begin-the-summer-seasonportions-of-the-atlantic-ocean-have-cooled-quite-noticeably-in-the-past-year

https://www.aims.gov.au/information-centre/news-and-stories/relief-recovering-reef-monsoon-cools-waters