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No, Im not. I never was. I see that we dont do enough.
First example - trains. Why we allow to donate small airports and buget airlines, and its so hard to have cheap trains, easily booked night trains?
I can buy airplane ticket from Warsaw do Eindhoven for less than train Eindhoven -> Ams.
The same about sleeping trains, impossible to book, more expensive than airplane…
If you don’t deny climate change, why make a sarcastic comment about changing the weather?
I'm not the one who posted that comment but I understand it as making fun of the government for trying to regulate an inanimate phenomenon.
"EU regulators pass legislation requiring nights to not be so dark"
I understand what it’s supposed to mean lol, but the point is that this is not the same thing as trying to change the darkness of the night (although that is very easy to achieve on the ground with lighting).
The probability, duration and severity of the heat waves we are having and will have in the future are caused by global warming / climate change. The old straw man argument by climate change deniers is that it’s just weather and that heat waves have always occurred, to which of course the answer is: yes, we know, but not this often or severe. That’s a result of climate change, as proven by science many times over.
So while this person apparently isn’t a climate change denier, it’s still a climate change denial talking point.
Not everyone who criticizes EU is climate denier.
As I said, I think we dont do enough.
You want another example? Portable AC. They should have, two pipes to prevent negative pressure inside room. Why eu didn’t regulate this?
Trains - as I said.
Truck ev chargers - we have in Poland only 2, where you can park with trailer.
Its sarcastic about what actually EU does. Or in fact, it doesnt