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[โ€“] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

It's hard to take seriously someone who talks about carbon neutrality while traveling to Iceland for tourism. Ah, but you offset your transoceanic flights? Oh, that's fine then, it's not like offsets are all too often a distraction without substance.

And let's not even get started on the amount of overtourism in Iceland. It's a country of 400k people with >2.2M tourists, mostly concentrated in July.

I mean, I'm happy they had a good time, the part that annoys me is the attempt to pass it as some kind of revolutionary green-economy solution. It seems to me simply a greenwashed version of your usual overspendy, high-waste, prestige Californian wedding.

[โ€“] Sunshine@piefed.ca 1 points 5 days ago (6 children)

People want their marriage ceremonies to be special. America for them is an every day occurrence.

I mean I asked about Sailboats from North America to Europe earlier and people scoffed at me for suggesting that idea. Greta Thunberg uses that mode of transport, but itโ€™s not the most accessible for everyone.

Are people supposed to stay within their own continents and never traverse beyond that?

Iโ€™m sure you decided to write this criticism because you saw the โ€œbadโ€ vegan word.

[โ€“] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's just not reasonable to go continent hopping yeah.

If you can make do without meat, they you can make do without aeroplanes and sailing the Atlantic is not something everyone can do

[โ€“] maam@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Letโ€™s make up all the rules in the world for vegans. How dare they be more ethical and more sustainable, theyโ€™re not allowed to have fun like me because they donโ€™t have the same vices, I want to discriminate and hate them for no reason.

They need to achieve absolute perfection. Even if itโ€™s literally impossible. I need a moment to rally against good healthy people.

[โ€“] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I dont understand why you think vegans have more of a right to have a transatlantic wedding than others... I guess in the USA there is no shame in flying

[โ€“] maam@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Yet you only focus criticizing vegans on transatlantic weddings.

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