Andreas Gustavsson wrote in Dagens ETC's leader on 6 October 2016 that individuals must be ready for significantly more and tougher sacrifices in order to save the climate.
In part it is true, but the solutions can be quite comfortable with respect for the individual's freedom and shortcomings if structural solutions to the environmental threats are introduced.
The saving of the climate through hard-headed individual efforts is, for the rest, a bourgeois belief in the rights of the strong. Single mothers, burnt out, alcoholics and many others are too exposed to e.g. source sorting. Then the other healthy people are also only human and suffer from the human factor, i.e. people don't do what they should.
We should have more structural solutions instead.
There is a lot of research going on into synthetic meat.
There is technology for automated source sorting that should be able to be applied more and introduced in Sweden.
Legislate for more frequent product updates. Force manufacturers to produce things that last.
Let the public sector recycle the substances in the industry's used products.
Help fabric producers in developing countries clean and recycle the water they use in clothing production.
Force the oil industry to fund research into environmentally friendly energy sources. There is research that the vacuum of space contains almost unlimited energy. An engineer I know also says that solar energy could be used much more efficiently.
Swedish wood fabrics are probably also positive.
Cut the working hours while maintaining the salary to share the jobs and save the climate.
What I mean is that we can let environmental protection be included more in our paid working hours and leave leisure alone.
Most of the time, it is possible to find a comfortable, solidary and tolerant solution to almost every problem if you only include that goal in every calculation.