Adventures of a Catalan student in Denmark

Denmark is a very small country and it has less than 6 million inhabitants so we could say that the world does not care whether Danes emit a lot or do not emit carbon dioxide at all. If you look at it this way, it is true that Denmark will definitely not make a difference in this global fight against climate change and global warming. But Danes have learned that by leading the way, they can inspire and help the world find the solutions that are needed to decrease the carbon dioxide emissions while we keep growing in the West and at the same time we keep vanishing poverty from Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. The environmental problems that we face are complex and due to many reasons and cannot be addressed fully in a short blog entry. There are people that might say that Denmark is not an example of a sustainable country because their high GDP/capita makes it more pollutant than many poorer countries. There are many ways to address the climate crisis and I am not here to te...

When I came back home last summer everyone was expecting me to tell them that the weather in Denmark was horrible and that is as cold as in the North Pole. I had to tell them the truth. It is known that Denmark and especially Copenhagen is not as cold as other places in Scandinavia but last winter was especially mild. It only snowed once and it was in April! It was dark and it rained a lot but temperatures were rarely below zero so I ended up with the feeling that it had been an exceptional and rare winter. I was right. These past months I got to experience my first real Danish winter. It has had everything from tons of snow, ice, and temperatures way below 0. October, November, and December felt a bit colder than last year but it was nothing extraordinary. But when I came back from Christmas the real show started. We landed and it started snowing. The first weeks of January were full of snow. It snowed almost every single day and the towns and forests were painted in white for some we...