2023: In the warmest October so far, countless restaurant heaters lit up Vienna's city center with subtle red light to warm the apparently freezing guests. Vienna is different - in many cities these radiant heaters are banned.

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The Christmas lighting, organized by the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Vienna, is used in Vienna's shopping streets since mid-November to increase the buying behavior. Unfortunately, the opportunity was missed to remind people with special lightening objects of sustainability and to encourage reflection in a time of terrible crises.

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However, climate activists took action in a new, quiet way: they placed a virtual globe with desert-like reddened land masses reminiscent of climate change between the incentives for the Christmas shopping frenzy and distribute the associated photos and videos via the Internet.

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In some places, the two types of Christmas decorations have been symbiotically linked: Calls to buy combined with those for sustainability and contemplation. Can economy and ecology be combined after all?