The Hague bans oil advertising and air travel. Ecological extremism remains in the Netherlands
The Hague just became the first city in the world to ban advertising for oil and energy-intensive industries, such as air travel and cruise ships.
The Hague, whose city council on Friday adopted a proposal to ban these adverts from January 1, 2025, is the administrative center of the Netherlands, home to Parliament, the Supreme Court and several major international courts.
The city is the first in the world to adopt such a ban, after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on governments to ban such adverts earlier this year. A shot of ecological moralism in a highly capitalist country that has based its history on money.
“Many in the fossil fuel industry have been brazenly greenwashed, even as they have tried to delay climate action – with lobbying, legal threats and massive advertising campaigns,” Guterres said in June, when he called on companies oil companies to profit from the climate crisis.
“Climate change is the mother of all hidden taxes paid by ordinary people, vulnerable countries and communities,” Guterres said, adding that “meanwhile, the godfathers of climate chaos – the fossil fuel industry – rake in profits records and feast on trillions in taxpayer-funded subsidies.”
The companies “have been aided and abetted by advertising and public relations firms – Mad Men, remember the television series – who fuel the madness,” the UN secretary-general said.
“In recent years, Guterres has used almost all of his speeches to denounce fossil fuels and the companies that operate in the sector.
Just last month, he called on world leaders to phase out oil and gas from their economies and halt new hydrocarbon exploration.
Speaking in Tonga at a meeting of Pacific Island leaders, Guterres said: “It's an absurd situation: rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity's making. A crisis that will soon swell to an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to safety."
Probably Gutierres, for ecological reasons, arrived in Toga with a sailing ship, not with a jet…
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