Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "OBF" channel.

It's not a contradiction to reduce mining, and increase a specific mine. And some parts of Germany got conterminated by the Chernobyl catastrophe, it's a real experience, in some areas some mushrooms or game in forest is still conterminated. The final stop of nuclear, came weeks after Fukushima.
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It's less influence on culture as you think. In the last decades, imports already have increased. Wheat is imported, Animal food is imported, Farmland has been used to what gives the best price (wine, artichoques, ..) - not to what is consumed locally. Did the decline of wheat production left a "cultural void" no. You didn't notice. It will be imported in future also. Maybe Sweden has more farmland than population. Or scotland or Island.
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Depends on what you compare with. If Oil price raises from $40 to $100, und you decrease it to $60, you still use less oil than with $40, although the price has dropped. And energy use is in no means oil use. There is almost no intention to use less energy, there is only an intention to use less fossile energy like oil, gas, coal.
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@eastcorkcheeses6448 No, in the last 2000 years there have been only little and temporary shifts. Due to Volcano activity there have been sometimes a dark cold decade before it came back to normal. It's supposed to happen arround 1660. Something worse was the big irish potato desease around 1850, or the plague. Never so much the climate.
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There is no "european design". Each country does it by itself. A relativly long train run, like Paris-Marseille is less than 500miles. That's really on the edge to taking a plane. But EUrope is simply more densly populated. There are more stops in between, more travellers to pick-up.
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@johnfreeman7921 In the personal meaning yes. Some people will experience shocks in their biography, scientifically spoken. But i mean their is not reason to worry "we are all going to starve", "mankind is going to be extinguished" etc. In the more global view, everything justs moves somewhere else. Same as textile industry moved somewhere else. A generation of needlewomen had to find another job, or retire early or whatsover, but their was no change for the consumer or for the supply.
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Europe also has shifted entire shoe and textile industry to Asia or Turkey. Such changes in industry do happen. The dependency to other areas is a risk, but it does not cause any collapse by itself. I just checked the number for Germany. Share of Agriculture on GNP is 0.78%. It's not a "huge chunk".
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A grid considers everything equal, there is not really a center. So it kind of makes an entire district, the center, the downtown. But what people like in characteristics of a city, is to have a central spot for orientation. The Marketplace, the city hall, the church. That's the core of every single city or even village in Europe. Where do the bus lines go to, where do the merchants go to, it's the marketplace, you know where to meet people.
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