I guess Jack in a moment will lift his eyebrow against us/me...if I post this:
but a hasty short answer, for some of your reasonable arguments, Rayyan, could be:
Denmark has together with the so called western civilization, been an industrial nation for more than 200 years. In that time we has polluted and let out CO2 together with other "college" western countries.
So we are in dept for this to the climate of the earth.
Therefore we, Denmark, while we ought to be able to afford it, will have to move forward, to be a showcase of how we might be able to make very drastic reduction in CO2 exhaustion.
But it will never happen, I'm sure.
While it will contain such as:
Forbidden travel by aeroplanes.
Forbidden cars that is larger than an VW UP.
Speedlimit at 80 km/h.
Just for a start.
Heavy tax at products that comes more than 500 miles away, with progressiv tax-raise according to more miles
Adding Climate tax at peoples incom at 15% for income more than 60.000 dollar and another plus-10% for incomes above 80.000 dollar.
Hunting down speculations where company's and persons are paying no tax.
etc., etc....
Its the comsumption that has to be lovered drasticly, and we have to start at the top of the income-pyramid, while people there are exhausting 7 times more than people in the bottom (in Denmark - the difference are several times larger in the most other countries)
Building a huge amount of windmills, extend the highvoltage exchange cabels all over the country.
Intensive state support for watertanks with electrical boilers inside, in or beside each house and buildings to be able receive electricity from windmills when there are overrun of windpower, to store the energy decentralized (in Denmark most houses are using waterbased heating systems), and to minimize hot water transportation in the large cities, and therefore reduce the need of powerplants using nonsustainable energi.
And supporting companys who will establish themselves out in the outer areas where a lot of people now are driving in cars towards the larger cities every day.
Yes the western society's did only go to Africa, India, Southern America to make a profit to themselves, in short we did steal their rawmaterials and left the local population in poverty and different inside wars.
Denmark had slaves in 300 years, until we sold Westindia to USA in 1917 (I guess Trump is referring to that when he got insulted about we didn't wanted to sell Greenland to him :grin
.
So a lot of big very fine buildings in Copenhagen are build by slavemoneys.
All that I'm aware of.
Therefore we ought to, as a small wealthy country, go in front to start the drastic CO2 reduction that will be needed if we want to avoid a raise of the sealevel at 60 meters and raise of temperatures at 10-15 degree in the long run, that will give climate fugitives all over the world and heavy starvation.
If we did so (but the politicians wont dare) we perhaps could create a hope for, that the other old western industrial nations would follow, and later on China, India etc. perhaps ...
But I know...we wont succeed, but we could give it a try (- its all empty free words, and has be so for about 20-30 years - we now need action)...or we could sit still and wait for the sea-level to rise and temperature to rise too, with insufficient water supply and starvation - I'm afraid the last thing mentioned will go on...
best hope for all of us - but I'm afraid its too late to turn around, even in Denmark (don't listen to our kind Prime-minister, even if she promise in a convincing way 70% CO2 reduction - I can assure you - it unfortunately won't happen...the middle and upper class don't want to voluntarily reduce their consumption and the politicians don't dare making that needed climate-revolution - so we are stucked..)